Shrimp diseases and control

Abstract

Shrimp farming has become a highly competitive and lucrative venture all along the coasts oflndia (MPEDA, 1993) and in many of the Asian countries (Subasinghe and Shariff, 1994) in the recent past. Emphasis is given to enhance the unit area production by semi-intensive and intensive shrimp culture techniques which include high density stocking, fertilising and feeding. The results of experiments on intensive culture of shrimps indicate that their production could surpass the production of crops or fish to many folds .