EXPERTS FROM KISR RAISE WHITE-LEG SHRIMP

  • 09/08/2022

Kuwait City: White-leg shrimp, also known as vannamei, were successfully farmed in a desert region of Kabd using low salinity water by aquatic life specialists at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). According to Acting Director General of KISR Dr. Manei Al-Siderawi, the Institute's experimental model shrimp farm has nearly reached commercial production levels after importing vannamei larvae from Thailand. 


He claimed that the experiment's productivity, the first of its type, was two pounds per square metre. According to Dr. Al-Siderawi, "This species of shrimp started to dominate the global shrimp farming market because to the rapid growth rate and great resistance to viral infections." The effort to grow vannamei in Kabd, he continued, is in line with the Kuwait Development Plan 2035 and cabinet directives to improve fish and shrimp farming practises to support national food security.

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