What is the definition of hatchery?
The Hatchery farm is the place shrimp breeding takes place. After shrimp reach about one centimeter in size, they have two destiny, to be sent to the grow out farm for meat production sales, or to remain on the hatchery grounds and grown to adult size for sale as live broodstock shrimp or used for further breeding. The hatchery consists of four different sections: algae building, larval rearing, maturation, and grow out ponds and tanks for broodstock (adult shrimp).
Larval Rearing
After shrimp have spawned and their eggs have hatched, larval shrimp are reared in special tanks. The "babies" will go through a series of larval stages before they become an actual shrimp. The process of larval rearing takes approximately 3 weeks, at which point the shrimp become "post-larvae", are approximately 1 cm/each, and are transferred to outdoor ponds for grow-out.
The Hatchery farm is the place shrimp breeding takes place. After shrimp reach about one centimeter in size, they have two destiny, to be sent to the grow out farm for meat production sales, or to remain on the hatchery grounds and grown to adult size for sale as live broodstock shrimp or used for further breeding. The hatchery consists of four different sections: algae building, larval rearing, maturation, and grow out ponds and tanks for broodstock (adult shrimp).
Larval Rearing
After shrimp have spawned and their eggs have hatched, larval shrimp are reared in special tanks. The "babies" will go through a series of larval stages before they become an actual shrimp. The process of larval rearing takes approximately 3 weeks, at which point the shrimp become "post-larvae", are approximately 1 cm/each, and are transferred to outdoor ponds for grow-out.
Out door ponds for grow-out needs high density cultivation, which is also know as biofloc technology. The biofloc system has been widely used for high density aquaculture.
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Key words: biofloc technology, biofloc system, high density cultivation, high density aquaculture
