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The first batch of white shrimp grown in Seychelles is expected to hit the local market around April this year. This will mostly be supplied to hotels and tourism establishments in the island nation in the western Indian Ocean, said the chief executive of the Islands Development Company (DC), Glenny Savy.
The first batch of white shrimp grown in Seychelles is expected to hit the local market around April this year. This will mostly be supplied to hotels and tourism establishments in the island nation in the western Indian Ocean, said the chief executive of the Islands Development Company (DC), Glenny Savy. It will take about a year to arrive at the full capacity of 200 tonnes of production, added Savy. The IDC is mass-producing shrimps on Coetivy, one of Seychelles’ outer islands.
At the moment, there are nine ponds being used to produce the white leg shrimp. Production of the black tiger prawns is expected to start soon. The white leg shrimp is a short-lived prawn and is the largest prawn in its range, reaching lengths of nearly 20 cm. It is one of the more highly sought-after seafood species. As for the black tiger prawns, they are large-bodied prawns that are native to the Indo-West Pacific Ocean but have established invasive populations in other areas. Tiger prawns get their common name from the stripes that cover their shell.
IDC’s CEO explained that they are using a number of money-saving techniques for the prawns’ production, which will allow the company to give Seychellois consumers the product at a more affordable price than their imported alternative.
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Prawn farming is not new to Seychelles. In 1989, in collaboration with the Seychelles Marketing Board (SMB), IDC developed a black tiger prawn farm on Coetivy Island, with broodstocks imported from Madagascar and Mozambique. The partnership between the two companies was over before the prawn farm was deemed not profitable and ceased its operations in 2009.
