Popular Post David48 Posted June 12, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) .Prawn Hatchery - Buying the baby Prawns ...Yep ... another Prawn/Shrimp thread!Packed, stacked and ready to be trucked.Earlier this year I was very lucky to be invited by the Farm Family to visit with them a Prawn Hatchery ... the small scale commercial operation where they buy their stock from.What did surprise me was the distance from the Farm this Hatchery was, considering the amount of ponds surrounding in the locale of just the Fish and Prawn Farm. Maybe that's an opportunity for the future!The production techniques, costs etc will come in the posts below and if you liked MissFarmGirl in the Prawn Interviews ... she makes a re-appearance with some information on the Hatchery and transporting the baby prawns etc. Farm Mother inspecting the purchase ... MissFarmGirl yawning in the background.Which is fair enough because we'd been up since sparrows fart, harvesting the prawnsbefore selling them to the wholesale market, then travelled the best part of an hour to arriveat the Hatchery. A small flavour of the trip to Hatchery. Lots more in the posts below. Titanium Member Advanced Members 6,000 posts This also is my 6,000th Post and I like to celebrate that milestone in the Farming Forum. The other in this series are ... Prawn Harvesting 01 Wholesale Prawn Market The Prawn Interviews Prawn Harvesting 02 . Edited June 12, 2013 by David48 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggy1969 Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Congrats on another milestone David. I am curious to know how the baby prawns are sold. Are they weighed or just scooped and bagged with a fixed price and then left to the buyers discretion and choice? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 Thanks shaggy1969 ... you simply get one 'spoon' per bag and pay per bag or, in this Farm's case 100 bags. You can see that 'spoon' in the early secs of the Video above on in this photo below. That photo is the only still I have of them working ... because ... gezze there were fast. I have to confirm a little later to MissFarmGirl's interviews to approximately how many there are in each 'spoon' thus bag. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) . The growth baths ... This Prawn Hatchery is located roughly an hour to 90 mins east or north-east of Bangkok. They import either the eggs or the whole Female Prawn from seaside locations within Thailand and then proceed to grow them from eggs into a saleable product, which, from memory is about 1 -2 weeks old. To my knowledge there is no hormone treatment to just have either male or female Prawns. The prawns when sold are so tiny that there are a couple of thousand in each small plastic bag. Scale of the operation Dry pool Shallow water only required. The baby Prawns appear as 'dirt' on the pool's bottom . Edited June 12, 2013 by David48 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted June 12, 2013 Author Share Posted June 12, 2013 (edited) . Hatchery/Nursery Production of Prawn Fry For those really keen and have a good internet connection. From wo to go in the Phillipines Probably one thing of note is the size of the Prawn that this video deals with is much larger then the common white Prawn the Farm grows out to Harvest. The above Video was produced by SEAFDEC The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is anautonomous inter-governmental body established in 1967. The mandate ofSEAFDEC as endorsed by the 41st Meeting of the SEAFDEC Council is "todevelop and manage the fisheries potential of the region by rationalutilization of the resources for providing food security and safety tothe people and alleviating poverty through transfer of new technologies,research and information dissemination activities". SEAFDEC comprises11 Member Countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, LaoPDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.The Center operates through the Secretariat located in Thailand and hasfour Technical Departments, namely: the Training Department; the MarineFisheries Research Department; the Aquaculture Department; and theMarine Fishery Resources Development and Management Department. . Edited June 12, 2013 by David48 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post David48 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2013 . Just how tiny are these little suckers? Just how tiny are these little suckers? You are looking at (apparently) a couple of thousand! . . . . The colour of their water is a reflection of the included food ... which should be an algae at their age ... though I'm yet to confirm that. . 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) . Tools of the Trade ... . . . Edited June 13, 2013 by David48 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 (edited) . Counting them in ... treating them gently ... NOT!! So they have racked them, backed them, feed them for the journey and filled their bag with oxygen. So you would think that the Prawn Fry are treated with motherly care ... no ... They are counted in, four bags at a time into the back of the Ute/Truck . . . . . . Edited June 13, 2013 by David48 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David48 Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 . A drink for the Road ... Giving the Prawn Fry a cooling bath before setting off ... A green shade cloth over the fry to protect them from overheating during transport. Farm Father ready to hit the Road As an interesting aside. They are real Ray-Bans, almost as old as MissFarmGirl ... The next topic is baby-prawns-part-2-the-mfg-interviews-and-pond-release . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amja Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Thanx David48 for a very nice thread! Amja 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GooEng Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Cool thread! Thanks for taking the time to put it up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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