Health & Welfare
Ace Aquatec launches in-water portable prawn stunner to improve aquaculture welfare
The company's Prawn Humane Stunner Universal can stun prawns unconscious in less than one second, improving animal welfare in aquaculture.
Intelligence
Can Britain learn to love sardines? Shifting seafood market trends hint at change
New research explores shifting U.K. seafood market trends and whether consumers are ready to embrace local fish like sardines, sprats, anchovies and herring.
Health & Welfare
Market test: Farm-grown freshwater prawns
A small test market at a high-end grocery store near Washington, D.C., USA, showed that farm-grown freshwater prawns would sell to high-income consumers who had not previously tried the product.
Innovation & Investment
Monosex culture of prawns through temporal androgenic gene silencing
A newly developed technology for producing all-male populations of freshwater prawns by temporal silencing of the androgenic gland insulin-like gene marks the first RNA interference-based biotechnology to be commercialized in the field of aquaculture.
Responsibility
Bangladesh study examines potential for prawn cage farming
While Bangladesh's prawn industry is based on pond culture, a feasibility study was conducted to establish prawn cage culture to benefit resource-poor fishers and landless people.
Health & Welfare
Periphyton-based tilapia-prawn polyculture
In periphyton-based aquaculture, the various invertebrates that colonize the hard substrates provided in ponds supplement artificial feed.
Health & Welfare
Freshwater prawns on ice
The Malaysian or giant freshwater prawn can be marketed live, chilled, or frozen. However, farmers face constraints regarding meat quality deterioration.
Health & Welfare
SPF fleshy prawns show potential for genetic improvement
In a recent effort to produce specific pathogen-free (SPF) stocks of the fleshy prawn, researchers from two U.S. institutions collaborated.
Intelligence
Genetic improvement of farmed prawns in Australia
The domestication and genetic improvement of farmed prawns has been slow compared to that of some other aquatic species and most terrestrial livestock.