Tag prawns

• Animal Health & Welfare

  July 1, 2014

  Market test: Farm-grown freshwater prawns

  A small test market at a high-end grocery store near Washington, D.C., USA, showed that farm-grown freshwater prawns would sell to high-income consumers who had not previously tried the product. 

• Leadership & Innovation

  November 2, 2013

  Monosex culture of prawns through temporal androgenic gene silencing

  A newly developed technology for producing all-male populations of freshwater prawns by temporal silencing of the androgenic gland insulin-like gene marks the first RNA interference-based biotechnology to be commercialized in the field of aquaculture. 

• Environmental & Social Responsibility

  November 1, 2010

  Bangladesh study examines potential for prawn cage farming

  While Bangladesh's prawn industry is based on pond culture, a feasibility study was conducted to establish prawn cage culture to benefit resource-poor fishers and landless people. 

• Animal Health & Welfare

  January 1, 2007

  Periphyton-based tilapia-prawn polyculture

  In periphyton-based aquaculture, the various invertebrates that colonize the hard substrates provided in ponds supplement artificial feed.