THE SHRIMP BOOK AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

It also includes the description of farming practices and the actual implementation of new technologies, information which is often presented in industry conferences, but rarely reaches publication.

• INTRODUCTION
  • Technical Evolution of Shrimp Farming & Status of Global & Regional Production
  • Small-scale Shrimp Farmers: challenges & opportunities for better market access
• THE SHRIMP
  • Functional Anatomy & Basic Physiology: Biology, Homeostasis, Reproduction.
  • The Molt Cycle
  • Larval & postlarval ontogenetic development & digestive physiology
  • Immunology & Immunostimulation
  • Genetics Review & Application
• PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
  • Review of commercial broodstock production, maturation & hatchery production systems
  • Farm production systems: – Extensive & Integrated shrimp farming – Semiextensive: Ecuadorian model, Madagascar – Intensive: Indonesia, Peru, Belize, Thailand – Superintensive: USA (Hawaii)
  • Hydrobiology of paralic systems in farm site selection & water management
  • Pond & soil management
  • The application of re-circulation technology for intensive shrimp production (also in ponds, focus on microbial management systems - bioflocs technology)
  • Selective Breeding: SPF, Disease Resistance, Growth, Performance
  • BMPs & Certification Systems
  • An assessment of costs, benefits & impacts of aquaculture & fisheries standards
  • White Spot, an inflexion point for the industry
• FEEDS & FEEDING
  • Nutrient Requirements & Current Status of Shrimp Nutrition Research
  • New horizons in Mineral & Vitamin Nutrition
  • Raw material evaluation strategies for shrimp diets - Optimising raw material sustainability
  • New horizons in Mineral & Vitamin Nutrition
  • Practical Feed Management
  • Neutraceuticals
  • Nutrition & shrimp health
  • Alternatives to marine fish meal & oils
• BIOSECURITY & SHRIMP HEALTH MANAGEMENT
  • A Review of Shrimp Diseases, Diagnostics & Disease Issues in Commercial Shrimp Farms
  • Shrimp Response to Viral Pathogens
  • Concepts of Biosecurity Applied to Commercial Shrimp Farming Systems
  • From "Disease Control" to "Health Management"-changes in approach to shrimp production
  • Use of Antibiotics & Alternatives to Antibiotics in Shrimp Health Management: probiotics
  • Epidemiology: from surveillance to risk analysis
  • PCR in shrimp aquaculture: adoption & controversies
  • Sanitary committees, Mexico
• POST HARVEST ISSUES
  • The World shrimp market
  • Microbiological safety in aquaculture shrimp/other safety issues related to processing
  • Maintaining quality of farmed shrimp to meet market demands