Tag eyestalk ablation

• Animal Health & Welfare

  January 28, 2019

  Stirling researchers identify viable ablation alternatives for shrimp hatcheries

  A research project aimed at improving shrimp hatcheries’ welfare practices shows there is a viable alternative to a common spawn-inducing technique. 

• Animal Health & Welfare

  August 22, 2016

  Stirling researcher preps eyestalk-ablation alternative trials

  University of Stirling Ph.D. student Simão Zacarias, who is from is Beira, Mozambique, will soon travel to Isla del Tigre, Honduras, to document evidence showing the benefits of breeding shrimp without eyestalk ablation. His is a journey of hopeful discovery. 

• Animal Health & Welfare

  May 26, 2016

  Camarón sin ablación de Seajoy responde a preocupación emergente de bienestar

  La remoción del tallo o pedúnculo ocular de camarones hembras reproductoras ha ayudado en el crecimiento explosivo de la acuacultura a escala comercial. Un compromiso de un productor de camarones de América Central ha demostrado que la producción de camarones 

• Animal Health & Welfare

  May 2, 2016

  Seajoy’s ablation-free shrimp answers emerging welfare concern

  Removing the eyestalk of broodstock female shrimp aided in the explosive growth of commercial-scale aquaculture. An undertaking by a Central American shrimp farmer has shown that producing shrimp without ablation can ease animal welfare worries without the feared drop in