Cargill Patents Special Shrimp Feed to Fight EMS
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton August 23, 2017
Cargill has filed a patent on a shrimp feed that it claims will reduce the spread of EMS (Early Mortality Syndrome).
EMS (also called AHPNS) devastated the shrimp industry in some major producing countries in 2012, and since then farmers have learned to manage around it but the disease has not been eradicated.
Cargill is now proposing a feed solution that would limit the impact. “EMS can quickly spread among farmed shrimp populations, causing mortality rates of up to 90% within 30 days, ” Cargill wrote in its worldwide patent filing. “Therefore, the prevention or mitigation of the occurrence of EMS in shrimp farms is desirable. ”
Cargill said a feeding strategy that improved the overall dietary function of shrimp..
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