The spionid polychaete Polydora nuchalis was collected from the mud bottoms of penaeid shrimp and oyster culture ponds at two aquaculture farms on Oahu, Hawaii. The polychaetes formed masses of mud tubes , which contained egg capsules and early and late larval stages. Polydora nuchalis is not a shell-boring worm like the congener P. websteri that infects commercial shellfish, but is considered ...

The impact on coastal ecosystems of suspended solids, organic matter, and bacteria in shrimp farm effluents is presented. Sites around Bahía de Kino were selected for comparative evaluation. Effluent entering Bahia Kino (1) enters Laguna La Cruz (2). A control site (3) was outside the influence of effluents. Water quality samples were collected every two weeks during the shrimp culture period. ...

The study was taken to analyse the Shrimp Culture Business in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. performance of shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) culture business terms production, marketing, finance and also constraints faced by farmers analysed. Aquaculture were classified into small (1-2 ha), semi-medium (2-4 medium (4-10 ha) large (>10 ha). results revealed that average gross income earned Rs...

Research in probiotics for aquaculture is at an early stage of development and much work is still needed. The principal bacterial groups tested as probionts in the culture of shrimp, crab, oyster and fish have been Vibrio, Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and several lactobacilli. The available information is inconclusive, since few experiments with sufficiently robust design have been conducted to permi...

Feed management in shrimp culture aims to improve the quality of organisms. The application feeding regime has been developed determine best formulation diet order maximize growth rate and survival by increasing feed efficiency minimizing waste. is closely related understanding physiological morphological aspects from larval stage adult stage. success with will be a solution problem high costs ...

Feed is a very important factor in vannamei shrimp culture. The initial stage of stocking the cultivation requiring higher percentage feed. application probiotics intensive culture known to have significant effect on survival shrimp. Encapsulation can increase viability probiotic bacteria compared free cells without encapsulation. Research has been carried out provision encapsulated consortia p...

BACKGROUND After cellulose and starch, chitin is the third-most abundant biopolymer on earth. Chitin or its deacetylated derivative chitosan is a valuable product with a number of applications. It is one of the main components of shrimp shells, a waste product of the fish industry. To obtain chitin from Penaeus monodon, wet and dried shrimp shells were deproteinated with two specifically enrich...

Loss due to diseases is a major problem in both shrimp farm and hatcheries and to control diseases, a number of antibiotics, sanitisers and chemicals are being used. This results in adverse environmental effects, emergence of antibiotic resistance and persistence of chemical residues in animal tissues. Considering the negative impact of antibiotics and other chemotherapeutants, biological contr...

The present study investigates the effects of different routes of inulin administration as prebiotic on gut microbiota and survival rate of Indian white shrimp post-larvae. Four hundred and fifty Indian white shrimp post-larvae (PL1) were stocked in nine tanks. The tanks were assigned into three treatments: feeding with inulin-treated (110 mg L(-1)) Artemia nauplii (I-T), feeding with inulin-en...

Semi-intensive shrimp production in Honduras is based upon use of formulated diets to supply nutrients for shrimp growth. Unconsumed feed contributes nutrients to pond water, which when discharged may deteriorate water quality in receiving waters. Estuaries are the water source and sink for shrimp farms in Honduras, and many farms have been established along individual estuaries. A key element ...