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The development of modular indoor shrimp
production systems is desirable for bio-security against shrimp
diseases. In addition, such systems can be located inland, away
from coastal sites that may be infected with shrimp viruses.
Mobility of site location can also provide a quality shrimp supply
to regions with high consumer demand. If enclosed bio-secure
shrimp production systems are economical to operate they will
have a future in the U.S. Years of research have resulted in
viable indoor, bio-secure shrimp production facilities, but production
cost estimates and financial measures of success are needed to
analyze a diverse set of alternative rearing schemes and assist
investors in their decision-making process.
The Bio-economic Recirculating
Shrimp Analysis Software (contact MSU
Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing) was originally developed to aid consortium
researchers determine the viability of their production systems
under presently obtainable biological production scenarios as
well as to assist them in predicting their system's economic
performance under foreseeable future production levels and economic
costs. The model's objectives have evolved to evaluate the economics
of commercial-scale ventures as well. Specifically, the model
aims to provide a simulation tool that quickly analyzes the profitability
of alternative biological, financial, and construction options
for indoor bio-secure recirculating shrimp production system;
the model will assist consortium scientists evaluate current
and future research efforts toward developing viable production
systems; and to assist investors in their decision-making process
toward adopting these shrimp production systems.
The logical expansion of the Bio-economic
Recirculating Shrimp Analysis Software
would be to look at vertical integration of the hatchery, nursery,
production, and processing components. A processing component
would provide information on the amount of shrimp required to
make its operation efficient and profitable, leading back to
the number of recirculating greenhouses (nursery and production
components) and hatcheries systems required to supply the processors
need. It is not required that only recirculating systems be used
to supply the processing sector and modeling of a low salinity
component and a pond component seem logical. These suggested
future work items begin to reveal the critical mass of components
required to make consortium production systems viable in the
U.S. Economic modeling can provide one way of envisioning this
future.
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Publications and Presentations
- Posadas, Benedict and Terrill Hanson. Stochastic Models for Shrimp Processing Systems in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Paper to be presented at the Economics Session of the 2008 World Aquaculture Society Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. February 9-12, 2008
- *Posadas, B. C. and T. Hanson. 2006. Economics of Integrating Nursery in Indoor Bio-secure Recirculating Saltwater Shrimp Growout Systems. In PingSun Leung and Carole Engle (eds.). Shrimp Farming: Economics, Market, and Trade. Blackwell Publishing.
- Hanson, Terrill R., Addison Lawrence and Benedict C. Posadas. 2006. Economics of Partial Harvesting in Super-Intensive Recirculating Shrimp Production Raceways. Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture, July 21-23.
- Hanson, Terrill R., Addison Lawrence and Benedict C. Posadas. 2006. Economics of Partial Harvesting in Super-Intensive Recirculating Shrimp Production Systems. Presented at the Aquaculture America 2006 annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 13-16.
- Hanson, T. R. and B. C. Posadas. 2005. "Economics of
Super-Intensive Shrimp Recirculating Systems." Paper presented
at Aquaculture America 2005 - Image, Sustainability and All that
Jazz, January 17-20, New Orleans, Louisiana. Abstract published.
- Bio-economic
Recirculating Shrimp Analysis Software. Software Copyright.
Terry Hanson, Benedict Posadas. This software assists farmers
in the use of greenhouses to enlarge shrimp before stocking in
outdoor ponds. This approach gains growout time for shrimp while
the weather outside the greenhouse is still too cool for direct
pond stocking. The model was developed to analyze production
cycles, quantities and values for feed, labor, fuel, heating,
interest, etc. for a commercial-scale operation.
- Hanson, Terrill R. and Benedict C. Posadas. 2004. Bio-Economic Modeling of Recirculating Shrimp Production Systems. In T. T. Rakestraw, L. S. Douglas, and G. F. Flick (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture, 55:144-151. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.
- Posadas, Benedict C. and Terrill R. Hanson. 2003. Economic
Considerations of Recirculating Saltwater Shrimp Production Systems.
Page 236 in Books of Abstracts, Aquaculture America 2003, World
Aquaculture Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
- Posadas, B. C. and T. R. Hanson. 2003. Economic Considerations
of Recirculating Saltwater Shrimp Production Systems. Paper presented
at Aquaculture America 2003, Kentucky International Convention
Center, Louisville, Kentucky, February 18-21.
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this report under Specialty Agriculture in its website,
it examines the U.S. aquaculture industry, including production,
inventory, sales, prices, inputs, and trade of catfish, trout,
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