Actually it’s the Giant Malaysian Freshwater prawn

PECAN ISLAND, La. (UPI)
- At the sprawling
Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
in southwest ~ Louisiana’s
coastal marshland, where
scientists have been working
for several years on “Super
Gators,” a new animal is
undergoing study —- a Super
Shrimp. a

The shrimp — actually the
giant Malaysian freshwater
prawn (Macrobrachium
rosenbergii) -— holds
potential in a few years as a
crop that could p¥ovide a
secondary income = for
Louisiana farmers and a
secondary source of seafood
for shrimp lovers around the
state of the nation.

There are, officials stress,
a lot of ifs.

But experiments
continue this

will
year on

freshwater pond cultivation
of the prawn, which can
grow to one-quarter pound
in tropical climates. ‘They
taste sweet, something like
lobster.

“1 know for sure that it can

_be grown in the state,” said

fisheries biologist Guthrie
Perry, who has been con-
ducting experiments for the
state Wildlife and Fisheries
Department.

“A landowner that would
want to try to raise them for
recreational value, with no
real profit motive, could
raise them (now) with no
real problem,” he said. “We
have by no means found that
(commercial production)
would be economically
feasible to attempt in
Louisiana. | think in the next
two or three years we'll

know where we're going.”
Perry conducted ex-
periments on the prawns in
12 freshwater ponds on the
refuge last summer, without
feeding the shrimp, to
determine stocking
requirements and growth
patterns. He plans to con-
duct similar experiments this
summer, refining them on

the basis of last year’s
results,
Roadblocks to com-

mercial production include

the necessity of importing -

larvae for the shrimp into
Louisiana and held in
brackish water before they
are placed in fresh water;
critical temperature zones

-within which the water must

remain; development of
proper food, feeding
regimens and stocking plans;

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and procedures for har-
vesting the shrimp.
Perry said they might

eventually make a good crop
to be cultivated along with
crawfish or catfish in ponds

.—~ and might even be
produced in rice fields.
“Catfish farming is already

lucrative and something like

this could’ be equally suc-

cessful,” said Harlan Pierce
Sate ga ERS

A23-Wednesday, February 13, 1980 - North Shore News

of Battistella Sea Foods, a
large deater in New Orleans.

‘Freshwater shrimp
culture will never replace
the Gulf shrimp fisherman,”
he said. “Instead, there's a
definite need for something
to take the pressure off
them. Shrimp catches are
going down and demand is

going up.”

In Huner’s experiment at

aising super shrimp for fun and profit

Southern University last
year, yields reached 400
pounds or $1,200 an acre. A
good crawfish pond might
yield 1,000 pounds, but
because crawfish are
cheaper the value would be
only $600.

“It's like raising tomatoes
— you always do better the
second year,” Huner said.

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