Generating single-sex prawn populations

For commercial prawn farms, all-male populations are highly desirable Photo: Professor Amir Sagi

Israeli scientists have developed a novel method for generating single-sex populations of prawns to both boost the productivity of aquaculture farms and as a biocontrol measure against invasive species and pests.

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