Lax biosecurity threatens whiteleg shrimp health on small farms: A policy and research challenge to India

摘要

After the shrimp boom of the early 1990s, with commercial integrated shrimp farming units under foreign collaboration, losses of Penaeus monodon from diseases (Babu et al. 2001) crippled profits of large-scale corporate shrimp farms and led to the introduction of the whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Among other outcomes, this needless diversification of species had verily shown unregulated ethics in transfer and post-import management (Raghavan and Prasad 2006).