Development of white shrimp seeds resistant to infectious diseases in South Korea

The National Institute of Fisheries Science announced on the 6th that it has established a selective breeding foundation for developing whiteleg shrimp with strong resistance to acute hepatopancreatic necrosis (AHPND), an infectious disease. AHPND is a Class 1 legal infectious disease of aquatic organisms, causing mass mortality and is known to be particularly fatal to young shrimp. Last year, the disease broke out in domestic whiteleg shrimp farms, and shrimp farming production decreased by about 30% compared to 2022. Accordingly, the West Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the National Institute of Fisheries Science secured whiteleg shrimp that survived the bacterial disease outbreak last year as mothers, produced seeds, and artificially infected them with pathogenic bacteria to verify the disease resistance of these seeds and investigated their survival rate. As a result of the investigation, it was confirmed that the seeds developed by the West Sea Fisheries Research ...