Cold-anaesthetization and Live Transportation of Penaeid Shrimps

Abstract

A review of present practices followed in live transportation of cold-anaesthetised penaeid shrimps is attempted in this paper. Live transportation is used as a means to enhance the unit value of the marketed shrimp. Japanese Kuruma shrimp Penaeus japonicus has been found amenable to this practice. Several countries such as Taiwan, Korea, China and recently Australia established a sizeable market for Kuruma shrimp transported alive to Japan, after cold-anaesthetisation. Research on live transportation of other shrimp species such as Penaeus monodon has shown encouraging result.