‘New’ disease has Indian shrimp farmers mulling return to black tiger – Undercurrent News Details Sites: IBIS AH Publish date: Thu 2015-Jan-29 Author: Neil Ramsden Channel: Search engines Text (summary): India’s production of vannamei shrimp is likely to drop in 2015, as farmers face disease issues and consider a shift to producing black tiger instead, the head of a farming association told Undercurrent News. ‘Running mortality syndrome’, or RMS, is a problem currently faced by producers across Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh – regions which represent 20% and 60% of the country’s shrimp production respectively, said Durai Balasubramanian, secretary of the Pattukottai Shrimp Farmers Association (with 4,000 members). As a result, farmers are considering a reverse in the trend which has seen Indian shrimp production rocket in 2014 – the switch from black tiger to vannamei farming. “There is no cure for running mortality syndrome at the moment, but lots of consultants suggested to go for better farm management practices,” said Balasubramanian. “P. monodon [black tiger shrimp] can only be produced under low stocking densities, so production will definitely come down.” Read more: www.undercurrentnews.com [English Locations Location Coordinates Zoom Relevance Show on map India 22°N 79°E 0.758 United States 39.76°N 98.5°W 0.307 Discovery Discoveries: Discovery method: Robot discovered URL: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/01/29/new-disease-has-indian-shrimp-farmers-mulling-return-to-b… Original language: English Original title: ‘New’ disease has Indian shrimp farmers mulling return to black tiger – Undercurrent News Original text (summary): India’s production of vannamei shrimp is likely to drop in 2015, as farmers face disease issues and consider a shift to producing black tiger instead, the head of a farming association told Undercurrent News. ‘Running mortality syndrome’, or RMS, is a problem currently faced by producers across Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh – regions which represent 20% and 60% of the country’s shrimp production respectively, said Durai Balasubramanian, secretary of the Pattukottai Shrimp Farmers Association (with 4,000 members). As a result, farmers are considering a reverse in the trend which has seen Indian shrimp production rocket in 2014 – the switch from black tiger to vannamei farming. “There is no cure for running mortality syndrome at the moment, but lots of consultants suggested to go for better farm management practices,” said Balasubramanian. “P. monodon [black tiger shrimp] can only be produced under low stocking densities, so production will definitely come down.” RMS has caused pond biomass to fall substantially for many farmers – mortality rates reaching 70% in most cases, according to a report by Mastan Vali, senior scientist with India’s MAAARC [Matrix-ANU Advanced Aquaculture Research Centre]. Workflow Status: Alert
