In the US, freshwater prawn are commercially farmed in the Midwest, the South, and Hawaii. The freshwater prawn industry is small, making up less than 1% of annual domestic aquaculture production. In ...

According to the 2024 edition of the China Fisheries Statistical Yearbook, the total output of farmed shrimp in 2023 reached ...

Now, however, freshwater prawns may be able to enjoy wider commercial success, thanks to a new breeding technique developed by Enzootic, an Israeli agro-biotech venture founded in 2012 by Dr ...

Giant freshwater prawns, locally known as 'golda chingri', have distinctive tiger-striped brown or black shells, can reach lengths of 35-40 centimetres each, and just four or prawns can weigh up ...

Cook and Elder have since expanded Freedom Freshwater Shrimp Co. into the consummate freshwater shrimp business, their own prawn farms now only one of the many facets of the company.

According to their study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, freshwater prawns feed on the snails that host the parasites but cannot carry the disease ...

The African river prawn, Macrobrachium vollenhovenii, is a large commercially important freshwater prawn that lives on the west coast of Africa. This endangered species is predatory with a ...

As prawn farms multiply, North Carolina chefs are increasingly viewing freshwater prawns as local, eco-friendly alternatives to shrimp. In the Triangle, restaurants like Zely & Ritz, Lantern and ...