World shrimp production tops 6 million metric tons each year, and demand continues to grow. The good news is in many developing countries, shrimp fishing and farming creates jobs and income. The bad news is that the wild shrimp broodstock in these countries tends to be riddled with disease, causing 80 percent to die before reaching maturity and those that live grow slowly, and rarely reach full size. Bangladesh produces and exports upwards of 70,000 tons of shrimp, amounting

Bangladesh produces approximately 70,000 tons of Tiger shrimp for export with export earnings of 550 million dollars annually. The majority of production is produced by small farmers. The farmers depend on shrimp hatcheries to produce 6 to 10 billion post larvae for stocking farmer’s ponds. Traditionally, hatcheries have depended on wild broodstock that frequently carry diseases to produce these larvae. These diseases are often passed on to farmers from the hatcheries and lim

When technology transfer is carried out within the framework of cooperation, a successful partnership is often developed that leads to innovation, commercialization and market creation for the developer, its partners and their customers. The USAID Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation grant program has been the vehicle for the creation of a successful partnership between Moana Technologies of Hawaii and MKA Hatchery of Bangladesh. We were supported in the effort by a supp

From May 10 to September 6, 2015, Moana Technologies, a shrimp broodstock supplier in Hawaii, fielded a team of hatchery operation specialists to strengthen operations at MKA Hatchery, a shrimp hatchery in Bangladesh. Moana provided training in handling and breeding its specific pathogen free (SPF) broodstock. The training and technology transfer included training in artificial insemination, natural mating, the introduction of a new species of algae (Thalassiosira) as a lar