Shrimp Hatcheries in Bangladesh

Shrimp Hatcheries in Bangladesh : There are 58 shrimp hatchery in Bangladesh most of which are located around the high salinity costal area of Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf and engaged in hatching only Black Tiger Species of Marine Shrimp. Though hatchery industry is the first stage of shrimp processing sector, it started being established in early ninety’s, which is much after development of shrimp culture and shrimp packing industries. This was mainly due to non availability of technical know-how in Bangladesh. Therefore most of the hatcheries now are operating under technical experts from India, Thailand and Philippines.

Out of 58 hatcheries, 8 hatcheries are not operating since 2003-04 and the rest are reportedly operating at an average of 40 to 50 % capacity utilization.

Yearly production capacity : Annual Fry production capacity of 50 hatchery units under operation is around 10 billion pcs and at present capacity utilization level they are producing about 7 billion Fry and at 25% mortality the final delivery quantity in the hand of buyers culture farms is about 5 billion Fry.

Demand of Spawner(Mother) Shrimp : Considering the present demand of 5 billion Fry by about 55,000 marine Shrimp Culture farms an approximate quantity of 100,000 pcs Spawner Shrimp are in aggregate demand by all hatcheries.

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