The creation of all-male or all-female groups of animals, known as monosex populations, has become a potentially useful approach in aquaculture and livestock rearing. Researchers and those in the ...

Can a shrimp smile? It’s tough to say whether the gangly, blue-legged crustaceans lurking within the massive aquaculture tanks are actually happy, but they certainly appear to be content. Perhaps it’s ...

Before bite-sized crustaceans like crayfish, shrimp and prawns land on our dinner plates, they first have to get fat themselves -- and it turns out they relish the freshwater snails that transmit the ...

Researchers have developed a new strain of prawn that grows 25% faster than other strains, in order to feed people living alongside Asia’s great rivers. The researchers combined three strains of giant ...