Partial harvest with BFT(Biofloc), a promising system for pacific white shrimp

Shrimp farming has become competitive and as such the technology utilized needs to be efficient in all aspects –productivity, quality, sustainability, bio- security and to be in line with market demand.

BFT (bio-floc) appears to be the solution for efficiency in terms of energy and feed utilization. The basic system of bio-floc technology was given by Avnimelech (2000, 2005a&b). The system was successfully applied in commercial culture of shrimps by McIntosh  (2000a,b & c, 2001), McNeil (2000), Nyan Taw (2005, 2006),  Nyan Taw & Saenphon Ch. (2005); Saenphon Ch. et.al. (2005). Most recently a study on BFT in combination with partial harvest was carried out by Nyan Taw, et. at (2008).