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Shrimp breeding: The importance and complexity of a successful breeding program Robins McIntosh, Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company
Figure 1. Culture of 60-gram P. vannamei in 150 days of grow-out in Malaysia.
The Americas and Asia underwent a similar decline in shrimp production efficiency due to the use of wild broodstock in hatcheries. In both cases, shrimp lost growth potential and had an increasing variance in growth rates within a pond, resulting in major size differences at harvest. Belize Aquaculture was the first industrial application of Penaeus vannamei Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) stocks recently developed which removed the issues brought in with wild broodstock. Survival, growth and uniformity were re-established.
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These same SPF shrimp were failing in larger Latin American grow-out ponds, but Belize Aquaculture was designed as intensive smaller ponds with farm and pond pathogen exclusion biosecurity measures.
CPF shrimp breeding program In 2001, a similar situation existed in Asia, an industry that was failing with the use of wild Penaeus monodon. However, on this occasion, culture was based on smaller intensive ponds applying biosecurity principles. As a