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Use of snail meat in shrimp feeding in Vietnam- Video

Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) This video was filmed in a shrimp operation in Vietnam The practice of feeding snail meat to farmed shrimp in many Asian countries has been a popular and widely used practice in Asian countries. The driving force behind the use of …

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Assessment of feed consumption and shrimp condition in earthen ponds in Vietnam – Video

Credit for the video: Ahmed Shaheen – Egypt Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) This video was filmed in a shrimp pond in Vietnam. It seems from the aeration system that the pond is managed at intensive level. Because the high cost of shrimp feed, efforts are spent to minimize the …

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Intensive shrimp culture under greenhouses in Ecuador

Photo credit: Kevin Fitzsimmons (USA) Technical review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) In the late 1990s, shrimp production in Ecuador was severely affected by the White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) that caused a drastic decrease in shrimp production and so in the value of exported shrimp. The significant contribution of shrimp exports to …

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Use of moderately-saline shrimp discharge in flood irrigating sorghum crop in Arizona

Photo credit: Kevin Fitzsimmons (USA) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The integration between aquaculture and agriculture has been successfully practiced especially when the integrating components are compatible assuming the economic viability and the environmental merit of such system. The integration of inland, low-salinity shrimp farming with traditional agriculture in Arizona provided …

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Experimental polyculture of tilapia in shrimp ponds in Thailand

Credit: Kevin Fitzsimmons (USA) The photo shows an earthen shrimp pond in which tilapia cages are installed. The aerators in the pond indicate the intensification level of pond management. This experimental operation is carried out at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. The key outcomes of this operation show > 90% as survival rates. The …

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Capturing the moment of molting in shrimp – Video

Credit for the video: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website and video channel) In this short video one can see the molting moment of a shrimp specimen (marked in red). I guess that was a sort of luck to catch this moment. Molting is an essential process for the …

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Partial harvest of Indian white shrimp in Egypt – Video

Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Description: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of channel and website) This video was filmed in a shrimp farm located along Port Said-Damietta road (Egypt) The video shows the partial harvest of the Indian white shrimp (Penaeus indicus). Some farmers adopt the partial harvest mainly for marketing purpose. In this system, …

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Shrimp eye-stalk ablation – Video

Video credit: Ahmed Shaheen (Egypt) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Channel founder) This video was filmed in a commercial shrimp hatchery in Vietnam. The eye-stalk ablation was commercially adopted in the early 1970s as an effective means in the maturation and spawning of shrimp females. The eye-stalk is the source of Gonadotropin Inhibiting Hormone (GIH) …

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Culture of whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei in Thailand

Credit: Ayman Ammar (Egypt) The photos were photographed in a commercial shrimp farm in Thailand. You may see the action of checking the feeding activity of shrimp and whether the feed placed in the feeding tray shown in the photo was totally consumed or if there is a left-over feed. While checking the status of …

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Culture of Indian white shrimp, Penaeus indicus in Egypt: Pond preparation prior to stocking (1 out of 6) – in Arabic

Credit: Sherif Sadek and Mohamed Sabry (ACO), Egypt Reporting: Abdel Rahman El Gamal   توضح الصور عملية رئيسية يتم إجراؤها أثناء تجهيز حوض ترابى قبل تخزينه بيوافع الجمبرى الهندى الأبيض Penaeus indicus.  فى هذه المرحلة من إعداد الحوض، يتم استخدام محلول الكلور بالتركيز المناسب حيث يتم استخدام المحلول فى تجمعات المياه وفى أية مناطق يحتمل وجود …

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