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Key Components of a Shrimp Hatchery

• Site Selection: Requires clean, silt-free seawater (salinity 30–36 ppt), reliable power with standby generators, freshwater access, and proximity to broodstock or transport routes.
• Core Facilities:
• Maturation & Spawning: Tanks where adult broodstock are conditioned and induced to spawn (often utilizing eyestalk ablation).
• Larval Rearing Tanks: Indoor concrete, fiberglass, or circular tanks for early life stages.
• Live Food Culture: Production areas for microalgae (Chaetoceros, Skeletonema), rotifers, and brine shrimp (Artemia).
• Water Treatment: Sand filters, sedimentation basins, and aeration systems (like roots blowers) to maintain water quality.
• Hatchery Scale:
• Small: Produces 1–5 million fry per year.
• Medium: Produces 10–20 million fry per year.
• Large: Produces over 20 million fry per year run by commercial corporations.
• Operational Stages: Spawning and egg collection → Nauplii hatching (12–18 hours) → Larval stages (Zoea, Mysis) fed live phytoplankton and zooplankton → Post-larvae (PL) nursery and harvest around PL15–PL25.

Read the full manual via the FAO Shrimp Hatchery Guide.

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