date:Mar 06, 2014
ture production of tiger shrimp mainly due to the spread of white spot syndrome, a viral infection that wiped out the broodstock.
Leena Nair, Chairman, MPEDA, said nearly 220 hatcheries all over the countryinvolved in tiger shrimp farming lost their broodstock. Following this, the MPEDA imported domesticated and specific pathogen free (SPF) L. vannamei (also known as Pacific shrimp) from the U.S. and supplied it to nearly 180 hatcheries. Domestication is a process by which the livestock quality