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These reports are in a constant state of revision. If you would like to correct or add information to one of them, contact Bob Rosenberry at bob@shrimpnews.com.
Shrimponomics: Why do we eat so much shrimp? Who better to ask that question than Dr. Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, the best-selling book (3 million copies and counting) that looks at unusual data sets to explain complex human behavior.
About Shrimp Farming: This long, searchable article contains background information on shrimp farming. It describes the production cycle (hatchery, nursery, growout) and then discusses equipment, supplies, farming strategies, factors affecting production, and some of the costs associated with shrimp farming. Maps. Diagrams.
The Shrimp List: The Shrimp List is an online mailing list for the shrimp farming industry. If you have questions about shrimp farming, this is the place to go to get them answered! Excerpts, beginning with a little shrimp joke.
Shrimp Bites Hollywood: In the summer of 1994, the movie "Forrest Gump" created a big stir in the shrimp industry because of its shots of shrimp cooking and shrimp fishing. Did you know that good old Forrest was a shrimp farmer in the book? Read on. He makes a fortune! Pictures.
Book Review: The First Shrimp Farm: Marifarms Started It All! In Memoirs of a Shrimp Farmer, a 200-page book, John Cheshire, the manager of Marifarms from beginning to end, tells the farm's story in short, year-by-year chapters.
Paul Mulvihill, the first prawn farmer in the continental United States. In the mid-1970s, he and Weyerhaeuser Company spent a couple of million trying to get freshwater prawn farming started.
An Oral History of Shrimp Farming in the Western HemisphereÑTold By:
Steven Serfling, 1944 to 2007, a Tribute: One night in September 1976, Steve and his business partner at the time, Dominick Mendola, scribbled down some aquaculture concepts that eventually led to trials with “bio-floc” shrimp farming. In the late 1970s, they built a zero-exchange, intensive, bio-floc, shrimp farming system capable of producing roughly 20,000 pounds of shrimp per acre per year, but no one would believe their numbers, and they could not get investors to buy into the concept.
El Nino and Shrimp Farming: Reports from Shrimp Farmers. El Nino, the Book. El Nino, the Movie. The Monster El Nino of 1997-1998. Maps. Diagrams. Searchable.
The 2004 Tsunami and Shrimp Farming: On December 26, 2004, an earthquake off the northwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a tsunami that destroyed shrimp farms in southeast India, northwest Indonesia and shrimp hatcheries in southwest Thailand. This report tells that story.
Anatomy of a Shrimp: Glossary and Illustrations. Searchable.
Farmed Species: Identification Guides. Scientific Classification. Vannamei gets its first name back. Bait. Searchable.
Probiotics and Shrimp Farming: A long discussion from the Shrimp List. Names, titles, affiliations, addresses and contact information on the 28 participants. Searchable.
Meet the Flockers: Will "bio-flocs" make shrimp farming the most environmentally friendly agriculture industry in the world? Names, titles, affiliations, addresses and contact information on the 26 participants. Searchable.
Shrimp Behavior 101: It's midnight. Do you know where your shrimp are? Rod McNeil knows because he's underwater with lights watching them.
Diving Shrimp Ponds with Alec Forbes (1940Ð2007): Alec always chatters about diving his shrimp ponds, so I emailed him a list of questions about diving shrimp ponds. Read his resume at the end of the interview. Alec died in August 2007.
Dialouges with Shrimp Farmers: Shrimp News Interviews the World Wildlife Funds' Jason Clay and Jose Villalon. They are developing environmental standards for shrimp farms worldwide.
FREEÑPeneaus monodon Hatchery Manual: Improving Penaeus monodon Hatchery Practices, a manual based on the shrimp farming experience in India, reviews the status of broodstock facilities and hatcheries in India and then discusses ways of improving postlarvae quality. Focusing on the giant tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon), it also provides technical protocols and guidelines for improving hatchery biosecurity.
Peneaus vannamei Versus P. monodon in India: When will India permit the farming of the western white shrimp, Penaeus vannamei? Soon? A long discussion from The Shrimp List.
SHUNDERBAN: My son, DASKIN RAY, the Tiger God, controls this world by killing humans. Currently, he must kill 20 humans a year to keep the ecology in balance. But, as shrimp farming expands in the civilized world to the north and as the number of fishermen coming into the groves to harvest shrimp seedstock increases, he will need to kill more and more.
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