A University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff researcher is studying how Arkansas freshwater aquaculture farms could grow white leg shrimp, a saltwater creature.
The product is currently imported into the United States. But Yathish Ramena, Ph.D., director of UAPB’s Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Center of Excellence, is leading research aimed at raising the shrimp by acclimating them to indoor freshwater production in Arkansas.
Ramena said the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission permits growing litopenaeus vannamei, or white shrimp, as an approved conditional species. The raising must occur in an indoor, enclosed system without any water exchange or discharge to protect the native species…