- Sex,sperm and shrimp

  • 03/05/1998

  • India Today (New Delhi)

The sex life of shrimps is vital to India's exports. After they mate and proliferate, millions of shrimps are packed into cans and sent abroad, earning India a large chunk of the Rs 4,000 crore it earns in marine exports. So it's worrying that the growth rate of marine products has fallen by nearly half since last year. Falling shrimps catches on the high seas and the closure of many shrimps farms onshore becuase of disease and pollution are responsible for this. So, Indian researchers are now ready to artificially inseminate shrimps. Geneticists at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education in Mumbai say they can produce an average of 4,365 shrimp larvae from each female shrimp.