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Synbiotics as a management tool for improving nursery efficiency By David Kawahigashi, Technical Director, Vannamei 101
Super intensive raceway in South Korea applying fermented rice bran.
Nursery systems continue to grow in popularity in both Asia and the Americas. Obvious benefits include shorter grow-out cycles, control over early disease outbreaks, limited water exchange, improved
feed management, control over culture medium, and improved shrimp health prior to transfer to the grow-out phase. Due to recent problems with the quality of post-larvae coming from
commercial hatcheries in both Asia and the Americas, nursery systems also serve as a “quarantine� to eliminate weak, unhealthy juveniles while transferring the survivors.
