Fisheries department plans big hike in giant freshwater prawns output

By THE NATION

 

 

The Department of Fisheries aims to increase the output of giant freshwater prawns to 40,000 tonnes per year by 2022, from the current production capacity of 31,000 tonnes per year, said Meesak Phakdikhong, the department's director-general.

 

The increase in production would raise the estimated value to Bt7.9 billion.

 

“Thailand has the capacity to become the world’s major production base for giant freshwater prawns for export, while the government would provide support in terms of technology, innovation and funding to farmers and entrepreneurs to maximise their production capacity,” he said.

 

 

Meanwhile, Chalermchai Suwanrak, director of Fresh Water Fishery Research and Development Division, has added that Department of Fisheries plans to increase sales channels for giant freshwater prawns both domestic and overseas, especially in Chinese markets that have high purchasing power and high demand for both frozen and refrigerated prawns.

 

“We would also create a brand of Thai giant freshwater prawns, as well as organise trade exhibitions overseas to increase brand awareness,” he added.

 

“Currently the department is promoting the GAP [Good Aquaculture Practice] standard among 600 prawn farms in Chachoengsao, Suphan Buri, Ratchaburi and Nakhon Pathom provinces,” said Chalermchai. “We are also developing a method to raise giant freshwater prawn in mud ponds, as well as improving a biosafety standard for prawn farmers to prevent diseases and maximise their production.”

 

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32 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Department of Fisheries aims to increase the output of giant freshwater prawns to 40,000 tonnes per year

 

Hurray, right in time for the arrival of the first 40 Chinese tourists to Thailand.

 

 

Their really cute!  I don't think I could eat one after seeing that picture....nah, I was wrong.  I could definitely eat 2!

I remember when you could get large ones from talad for 80 b/kg. What is it now, 230-250? In a decade the prices have risen far too high and now it's a luxury item.

Here's hoping they produce too many and knock the price down. I luv 'em. Could eat them every day.

More lagoons filled with soil killing nitrates. Once these farm ponds are abandoned and dried out the soil is so depleted nothing  will grow. 

 

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

 

The increase in production would raise the estimated value to Bt7.9 billion

 

Prawn cocktails all round then ..

 

I like my seafood from the sea....not farmed freshwater produce.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

increase the output of giant freshwater prawns to 40,000 tonnes per year

 

Fisheries department plans big hike in giant freshwater prawns output. 

 

Nah, leave them where they are.

I Love seafood, Not Fresh water ones not even Freshwater Fish, Yuck.

Maybe they say that I am Fussy.    ????

Free pick-up service from Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang.

 

 

4 minutes ago, digger70 said:

Fisheries department plans big hike in giant freshwater prawns output. 

 

Nah, leave them where they are.

I Love seafood, Not Fresh water ones not even Freshwater Fish, Yuck.

Maybe they say that I am Fussy.    ????

Easy fix.

 

If you are allergic against freshwater.

They deliver free of charge from their new dirty water farm.

Call Pingpong and ask for a quote.

2 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

Easy fix.

 

If you are allergic against freshwater.

They deliver free of charge from their new dirty water farm.

Call Pingpong and ask for a quote.

No Thanks,   ????

So many prawns already walk this land ????

7 hours ago, webfact said:

“Thailand has the capacity to become the world’s major production base for giant freshwater prawns for export, while the government would provide support in terms of technology, innovation and funding to farmers and entrepreneurs to maximise their production capacity,” he said.

And sustainability?

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

 

freshwater prawns from Thailand taste bland ....  they have zero flavour so your paying hundreds of baht for a prawn that tastes like nothing.  They enhance the taste with sauces .  seafood sauce ( green )   chiili sauce,  tamarind and others.

So the product taste is zero but dip it in this and give it flavour.....    stupid  imo.

 

seafood prawns from the ocean win hands down.  

They know most tourists will be coming from China so definitely need more prawns 

13 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I like my seafood from the sea....not farmed freshwater produce.

And taste better as well,I find farmed seafood tasteless unless swamped in sauce.

20 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I like my seafood from the sea....not farmed freshwater produce.

Where does the article mention seafood?

GF's family are in the prawn business, farming and wholesale, and they're struggling right now as the maket has shrunk, bth domestic and export. There's already a surplus yet they want to produce more? Don't quite understand the logic......again!

On 10/23/2020 at 3:25 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

More lagoons filled with soil killing nitrates. Once these farm ponds are abandoned and dried out the soil is so depleted nothing  will grow. 

 

 

If it is managed well, they can use the nitrates as a fertiliser for vegetable production. 

20 hours ago, steven100 said:

freshwater prawns from Thailand taste bland ....  they have zero flavour so your paying hundreds of baht for a prawn that tastes like nothing.  They enhance the taste with sauces .  seafood sauce ( green )   chiili sauce,  tamarind and others.

So the product taste is zero but dip it in this and give it flavour.....    stupid  imo.

 

seafood prawns from the ocean win hands down.  

Isn't that what good cooking is all about, turning bland favours into delicious ones? Before I came to live here, I was under the very false impression that fish and other freshwater produce would have no flavour. How can it living in fresh water?

 

But how wrong I was. We often enjoy fresh caught fish from the rivers and the lakes around us and much of it with the minimum amount of enhancement. And shrimps and prawns are a regular part of our diet, all of it delicious.

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Isn't that what good cooking is all about, turning bland favours into delicious ones? Before I came to live here, I was under the very false impression that fish and other freshwater produce would have no flavour. How can it living in fresh water?

 

But how wrong I was. We often enjoy fresh caught fish from the rivers and the lakes around us and much of it with the minimum amount of enhancement. And shrimps and prawns are a regular part of our diet, all of it delicious.

no ... wrong .... it's bland and the sauce only makes the taste

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

no ... wrong .... it's bland and the sauce only makes the taste

 

One chef's "bland food" is another chef's blank slate to produce a masterpiece. 

 

Just like pangasius.  Starts out bland, but it ends up being what you make of it.

 

6 minutes ago, steven100 said:

no ... wrong .... it's bland and the sauce only makes the taste

Are you telling me my wife's a lousy cook?

 

Sorry, I suggest that what's bland is your sense of taste.

7 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

One chef's "bland food" is another chef's blank slate to produce a masterpiece. 

 

Just like pangasius.  Starts out bland, but it ends up being what you make of it.

 

yes .....  because of the sauces added.   

7 minutes ago, steven100 said:

yes .....  because of the sauces added.   

 

It's the sauces, the herbs, the vegetables, the spices, the cooking process, and the skills of the chef.

 

I question the insinuation that they're not good because they start out bland.

 

Personally, I think they should look into growing mud bugs, like they do in the rice fields of Louisiana.  Another "bland" protein that is outstanding boiled, or in a gumbo.  Or a po-boy sandwich.  And they supplement the income of rice farmers.

 

9 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

It's the sauces, the herbs, the vegetables, the spices, the cooking process, and the skills of the chef.

 

I question the insinuation that they're not good because they start out bland.

 

Personally, I think they should look into growing mud bugs, like they do in the rice fields of Louisiana.  Another "bland" protein that is outstanding boiled, or in a gumbo.  Or a po-boy sandwich.  And they supplement the income of rice farmers.

 

if you've seen what they feed farmed pangasius, tub tim, tilopia, fresh water shrimps and many other species ....  you wouldn't eat it again .....  chook sh_t comes to mind.    lol

Just now, steven100 said:

if you've seen what they feed farmed pangasius, tub tim, tilopia, fresh water shrimps and many other species most farmed in Vietnam ....  you wouldn't eat it again .....  chook sh_t comes to mind.    lol