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 ...

Years of losses, mounting debt and declining yields pushed many Satkhira shrimp farmers to the brink. Now, some are turning to SPF all-male prawns and chemical-free farming methods in search of a come ...

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 ...

Visakhapatnam: With the annual deep-sea fishing ban in force to protect breeding marine life, prices of freshwater fish, prawns, and even some less-popular seafood have surged by 30–40% across the ...

DB. B. CHOPRA, in his presidential address to the thirtieth Indian Science Congress, Calcutta, 1943, has gathered together interesting information concerning the various Indian prawns of economic ...