The Marine Science Center organized a course entitled “Shrimp Farming.”

The course aimed to teach participants how to produce healthy, high-quality shrimp in commercial quantities, while achieving profitability and environmental sustainability. This requires mastery of a series of precise technical and administrative processes.

The course, taught by Dr. Tariq Khattab Yassin from the Marine Science Center at the University of Basra, introduced trainees to the life cycle of shrimp and the most important commercial species available locally (such as penaeid shrimp), as well as their environmental and nutritional needs.

It also taught techniques for rearing larvae, caring for young shrimp in nurseries and ponds, and controlling the rearing environment (temperature, salinity, etc.). It covered types of industrial and natural feed, improving growth rates, and managing diseases and predators, thereby reducing losses.

Analyzing the challenges facing shrimp farms in the region (such as climate change) and proposing practical solutions for adaptation and sustainable growth.

Applying modern innovations in breeding and hatching, providing participants with the knowledge necessary to make the project economically profitable, and developing marketing strategies.

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