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3. Freshwater Prawn Farming


A freshwater prawn farm is an aquaculture business designed to raise and produce freshwater prawn or shrimp for human consumption. Freshwater prawn farming shares many characteristics with, and many of the same problems as, marine shrimp farming. Unique problems are introduced by the development life cycle of the main species (the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii).