DTU and Royal Greenland have collaborated on a new technology that can measure the thickness of the ice glaze on frozen prawns. This is important to know so that the prawns stay fresh and consumers get the right quantity ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 27, 2021
0
5
Researchers from the University's National Marine Science Centre have demonstrated that imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide, can impact the feeding behavior of prawns in a laboratory environment, leading to nutritional ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2020
0
24
Prawns are a staple of many Australian barbecues, and we're fortunate to have wild-caught prawns from sustainably-managed fisheries that boast best management practice.
Environment
Jun 12, 2020
0
4
Prawns are returning to WA's beloved Swan and Canning Rivers thanks to a recent restocking program that has now seen 4.5 million juvenile western school prawns (Metapenaeus dalli) released into the iconic waterways.
Ecology
Jul 5, 2016
0
10
Murdoch University scientists involved in a project to restock the Swan and Canning Rivers with Western School Prawns have identified a key predator of the juveniles and are using their research findings to maximise prawn ...
Ecology
Mar 8, 2016
0
8
Fish stocks around the world are under increasing pressure from fishing and human impacts such as excess nutrients entering the water, pollution, habitat loss and climate change.
Ecology
Oct 2, 2014
0
0
Millions of small prawns became stranded on a beach in southern Chile this week, carpeting a three-kilometer (two-mile) strand in red, local fishermen and police said.
Ecology
Mar 21, 2013
0
0
The latest study by Professor Bob Elwood and Barry Magee from Queen's School of Biological Sciences looked at the reactions of common shore crabs to small electrical shocks, and their behaviour after experiencing those shocks. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2013
6
0
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has developed an advanced gene-silencing biotechnology for aquaculture that changes the sex of prawns and yields the faster-growing all male populations, resulting in greater output ...
Biotechnology
Dec 3, 2012
0
0
A Queensland University of Technology researcher has filmed hours of prawn "sex tapes" to find out why prawns bred in captivity did not go on to breed well.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2009
0
0
