Farming fresh water PRAWNS (shrimp) in the U.S.A

Farming fresh water shrimp on my friends farm, we have three ponds that grow these shrimp (Malaysian Tiger Prawns) wright here at home in the U.S.A, Kentucky to be exact. Today we drain the biggest of the three ponds and harvest the shrimp so follow along as we show you how its done an educate yourself on our farming adventure.

*Did you know Malaysian Prawns are the second most harvested shrimp in the world number 1 being the White Prawn?

and (Kentucky state university) for all the help and education

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[RiverBloodfishing]

ponds are holding farm raised catfish I hope to make a video next harvest and update everyone on the farm

[gumonmyshu]

Bubba would be very grateful and be talking about it all day long.

[randyhavener]

Thank you for sharing! I had no idea this was done in Kentucky. That's Awesome!!

[BH-pnpy]

Fresh water prawn is one of the tastiest prawn in the world. They really popular and cheap in Southeast Asia. I am glad to see we can farm them here in US. I personally think they are better than crawfish. I think weather and temperature in the Florida would be better for the prawns to grow faster, since their weather condition similar to Southeast Asia.

[Alabama-ex]

Amazing fresh river prawn native in Thailand can live and grow big in Kentucky. Good work, great care.

[paul]

It would be great if 99% of the shrimp in the United States weren't "farm raised" in in SE Asia. I honestly have no problem paying more for anything if it's not raised in countries that have zero oversight when it comes to seafood farming. Hopefully more people get involved domestically with production, good job 👍

[nafsearthling]

This is the best prawn I have ever tasted.

[autistpatrol]

if you find a fertilized female with orange eggs: move her into a brackish aquarium tank so that when she releases her eggs the juveniles don’t die. (The larva need brackish water for the first 35-ish days of their lives or else they die)

by brackish i mean that: the salinity needs to be 10-14 PPT (aim for 12) and that’s it.

KT Prawns on youtube has a tank breeding guide.

I bought some breeders and I am going to experiment growing them in Pennsylvania.

on our homestead we have a 4 quarter acre ponds for bluegill, hybrid stripe bass, fathead minnows and pond snails (great supplemental protein and calcium for laying hens).

One of our ponds has an aerator and solar heater so I think it would be ideal to experiment with. can’t wait try to this!

[limkuoneating]

Wow, very nice place and a lot of shrimp, thank you for sharing 🎉❤

[TheRocknrolla]

Great Product. Tom Yum Guk would be epic, little garlic chopped within sauteed/ pan fried prawns is my fav

[corneliushoward]

I would love to get into something like this!! Plus that looked good coming off that grill!!!

[pappasmitty]

I hope these guys and those like them really blow up! Man I wanted some of those. Much rather buy prawns from U S waters and standards vs those from who knows where and raised who knows how.😁👍💯

[susanfarley]

on a school visit to the marine resources center we got to see freshwater shrimp they are breeding to see if they could be farmed and while I have never seen these shrimp available in groceries stores I have often wondered if anyone was farming them. The freshwater shrimp they were working with are huge! The breeding females weighed as much as 5 pounds. They looked bigger than most of the lobsters I see in tanks in the stores. They probably take longer to grow that big, which might be why you don't see them in the stores. Just one of these big shrimps would probably feed my family of four!

[petesrepair]

Ran across this video. Me and my father are raising prawns in Minnesota. Wondering if we could get put in touch with this farmer. We would love to chat with them. Not many of other prawn farmers to "talk shop" with. Thanks

[haokieto]

aren't they tropical? how are they surviving the cold weather in Kentucky?

[bigchief]

you should try fishing for this prawns its super fun...we still do it in Malaysia

[johnsagapolu]

Looks like hard work. Thank you for sharing. Love the video

[TheArthellin]

We have these In Singapore for recreational prawn fishing ponds aka prawning. Tasty buggers, Chinese call them 大头虾，big head prawn. We usually just stick a bamboo skewer through them and BBQ them

[kdog]

Do you guys make freeze dried bait for fishing also. ?

[contendersoftware]

I loved every minute of this video. Really awesome.