This chapter focuses on advances in the farm production of the freshwater prawns (FWPs) Macrobrachium spp., primarily on M. rosenbergii. Farming FWPs is generally divided into four phases: reproduction, hatchery, nursery, ...

The urgent need to increase the global supply of finfish, molluscs and crustaceans through the expansion of aquaculture activities, in the face of finite supplies from capture fisheries, has been well documented during the ...

Integrated aquaculture can be defined as aquaculture systems sharing resources with other activities, commonly agricultural, agroindustrial, and infrastructural. Freshwater prawns are excellent options for integration, ...

Freshwater prawn farming is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of aquaculture mainly due to the remarkable developments in culture technologies and their greater environmental sustainability compared to penaeids. ...

The bioecology of freshwater prawns can be understood by studying their reproductive biology. Thus, the aim of this paper was to determine and compare the reproductive potential of four freshwater caridean prawns collected ...