Shellfish Breeding and Hatchery Management (2+1)

Give the design requirements for the following and list out the components and their capacities

a) Plan for a shrimp hatchery of 40 million PL per annum

(Considerations: Species: P. monodon, Size of brood stock – 100g, Fecundity - 1 million eggs per brood stock, Spawning rate - 85%, Nauplii stocking density – 500 nauplii per l of water, Nauplii survival rate – 40%, larval rearing period – 15 days a cycle, Crop break – 4 days)