The company will launch an online platform, Doctor Shrimp^TM, where the latest research findings and practical solutions on shrimp farming will be published.

The company will establish a shrimp broodstock multiplication center in the country to source high-quality, specific pathogen-free (SPF) broodstock, locally reared.

The cooperation will receive technical assistance in the diagnosis of shrimp diseases, promote the exchange of specialists and researchers and propose in joint research projects.

The U.S. company is building a commercial demonstration facility that simplifies RAS systems with a new, innovative technology, algae-based wastewater treatment.

More than 25 major retailers and seafood companies and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) urged the governments of China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to take action in addressing the continued outbreak and emergence of new diseases in shrimp farms.

The Australian shrimp farm aims to develop the world-class Project Sea Dragon, a global scale prawn aquaculture project to be developed across northern Australia culminating in the operation of 10,000 hectares of prawn production ponds.

The first generation of shrimp produced at the Macrobio hatchery, a state-of-the-art shrimp breeding operation in Ecuador, will be ready by the end of 2020. 

Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CPF) is developing “Aquaculture 5.0” shrimp farm in the USA that can be cultured anywhere, any time of the year and that will use feeds made from ingredients which are all sustainable, being neither marine meals nor soybeans from sensitive areas.

Shrimp farming methods in Thailand have improved since Seafood Watch last assessed Thai farmed shrimp, prompting the change in rating from Red to Yellow.

The National Chamber of Aquaculture of Ecuador (CAN) signed a collaboration agreement with the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of China (YSFRI) to improve the biosecurity of shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador.

Shrimp MultiPath Xtra is the new state-of-the-art early warning system for farmers scanning for 14 pathogens that enjoys all the data collection innovation found in the original Shrimp MultiPath with the addition of Decapod iridescent virus 1.

Chamberlain has been leading the company successfully for over 20 years and he will transfer his remaining shareholding to Hendrix Genetics.

Thousands of shrimp and crayfish larvae were culled after hatcheries reported cases of the deadly Decapod iridescent virus.

The country designed a road map for the development of sustainable shrimp farming that aims to increase shrimp exports by 250%.

The country’s government has called for strengthening the control of imports for shrimp broodstock and PLs and aquafeeds from China to prevent the entry of decapod iridescent virus 1.

BioMar partners with Viet-UC to become co-owner and operational leader in the feed factory currently owned by Viet-UC.

A multi-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by the Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation (BSFF) and Hendrix Genetics to share knowledge for the development of black tiger shrimp production in Bangladesh.

CONAPESCA has inaugurated Genamex, which will produce certified shrimp broodstocks of high health and high genetic variety and will supply larvae production laboratories at a national level to improve the performance of crustacean production.