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lowered to the minimum in the water body when all the shrimps escaped
the other methods of operation can be well picked out.
Pest harvest stsclmsqlosz
Soon after the harvest, the post harvest technology depends on
the form in which the product is to be marketed. In general the
shrimps were kept in ice, protected from sunlight to prevent enzymatic
blackening of the shell in lieu of treatment with sodium bi—sulphite.
These were subjected to labour intensive deheading in order to reduce
the unpeeled body weight by 35%, the bacterial load by 80% and the
digestive enzyme by 100%.
1.3 IMPORTANCE OF AQUACULTURE
1.3.1 To tide, over the enhanced operationalp cost of
fishing owing to oilcrisis
The importance of aquaculture is that it can tide over the oil
crisis like that of the early seventies and recent Gulf war, which made
the exploitation of aquatic resources through capture fisheries highly
uneconomical. According to iiSim (1979), the advantage of aquaculture
as compared to traditional fishing is that it can dispense of expensive
fishing craft and gear together ‘with, their cost of operation. and
maintenance.
1.3.2 Io compensate thedeclining trend of capture fishery