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A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawn or shrimp for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming. Unique problems are introduced by the developmental life cycle of the main species (the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii). The global... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    Freshwater prawn farm

    A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawn or shrimp1 for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming.
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    Freshwater shrimp

    Freshwater shrimp may refer to: Caridea (shrimp) which live in fresh water (see also freshwater prawn farm)
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    Shrimp farm

    For farming of fresh water species, see freshwater prawn farming. ... The global annual production of freshwater prawns (excluding crayfish and crabs) in 2003 was about 280,000 tonnes, of which China produced some 180,000 tonnes, followed by India and Thailand with some 35,000 tonnes each.
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    Macrobrachium rosenbergii

    Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as the giant river prawn, the giant freshwater prawn or the Malaysian prawn, is a species of freshwater shrimp (not a prawn in terms of phylogeny, although colloquially "prawn" can refer to freshwater shrimp or true prawns) native to the Indo-Pacific and northern Australia. ... Freshwater prawn farming
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    Aquaculture in New Zealand

    Aquaculture started in New Zealand in the late 1960s. ... A small-scale freshwater prawn farm was established in 1991 at Wairakei, near Taupo, producing tropical giant river prawns.
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    Shrimp

    Main articles: Shrimp farm and Freshwater prawn farm ... List of freshwater aquarium shrimp
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    Aquaculture

    See also: Shrimp farm and Freshwater prawn farm ... Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming.
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    Brackish water

    Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater. ... Certain human activities can produce brackish water, in particular certain civil engineering projects such as dikes and the flooding of coastal marshland to produce brackish water pools for freshwater prawn farming.
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    List of fishing topics by subject

    This page is a list of fishing topics by subject. ... Farmed fisheries: Fish farm · Broodstock · Fish stock · Fish hatchery · Fish stocking · Salmon aquaculture · Farm-Raised Catfish · Tilapia in aquaculture · Freshwater prawn farm · Shrimp farm · Oyster farming · tailwater · Hirudiculture · National Fish Hatchery System · Sea louse · Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis · Taura syndrome · White spot syndrome · Yellowhead disease
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    Outline of fishing

    This page is a list of fishing topics by subject. ... Farmed fisheries: Fish farm · Broodstock · Fish stock · Fish hatchery · Fish stocking · Salmon aquaculture · Farm-Raised Catfish · Tilapia in aquaculture · Freshwater prawn farm · Shrimp farm · Oyster farming · tailwater · Hirudiculture · National Fish Hatchery System · Sea louse · Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Necrosis · Taura syndrome · White spot syndrome · Yellowhead disease

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