BACKGROUND Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) causes hepatopancreatic microsporidiosis (HPM) in shrimp. It is probably endemic in Australasia and was first characterized and named from the giant or black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon from Thailand in 2009. Later, it was also found to infect exotic Penaeus vannamei imported for cultivation in Asia. HPM is not normally associated with shrimp mortal...

Three isotrypsins from digestive gland of Penaeus vannamei were purified and characterized by molecular, biochemical and kinetic parameters. Purified isotrypsins A, B, and C are glycoproteins with molecular masses between 30.2 and 32.9 kDa, and, therefore similar to other trypsins. The isoelectric points are anionic and different among the three isotrypsins: pH 3.5 for isotrypsin A, pH 3.0 for ...

Shrimp aquaculture has a short history in I.R Iran. Farmed shrimp production grew slowly from 1992 until 2000 when a number of large farms started to produce. In 2000, the total production was about 4,500 MT and it was estimated that more than 7,000 MT would be produce by the year 2001. From August 1997 to March 1998, two thousand samples of cultured Penaeus semisulcatus postlarvae and subadult...

The size-frequency distribution of the commercial catch is often used as the basis of fisheries stock assessments (Pauly and Morgan, 1987; Gulland and Rosenberg, 1992) because most dynamic processes of populations (growth, survival, recruitment) are reflected in changes in this distribution. The data are generally collected, often at great expense, by sampling the catch at landing sites and mar...

The reproduction of the karamote prawn, Penaeus (Melicertus) kerathurus (Forskål 1775), was studied for the native population in Amvrakikos Gulf (Ionian Sea; western Greece). Sampling was carried out on a monthly basis between June 1999 and May 2001. The results showed that the shrimp Penaeus (Melicertus) kerathurus reproduction period spans between late April and late September. The size-at-ma...

The present study examined the influences of industrial chitin extraction processes on the residual oxytetracycline (OTC) and oxolinic acid (OA) in shrimp carapaces and shells. The drugs were orally administered by catheter to the kuruma shrimp (Penaeus japonicus) and vannamei shrimp (Penaeus vannamei). The shrimps were sampled at 6-h post-dosing and their carapaces and shells were collected an...

Milkfish, Chanos chanos, is one of the major inland cultured fish species in Taiwan. Variations land resources and climate have led to application two distinct culture practices milkfish polycultures with white shrimp, Penaeus indicus. This study applies a translog cost function model analyze production scale economy input demand price elasticity four polyculture systems different periods (OWC ...

the aim of this investigation was to study the planktonic shrimp-like communities density and diversity in artificial reefs of khuzestan coasts, bahrakan waters (the persian gulf). sampling was conducted for one year from may 2011 to april 2012, monthly. zooplankton were collected with plankton tows using 300 μm mesh net. totally, two superfamily, penaeoidea, sergestoidea and one suborder carid...