Commercial shrimp farms often remove the eyestalks of female shrimp to improve reproduction
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation
en.wikipedia.orgPosted Jun 21, 2014, 8:24 PM UTC
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en.wikipedia.orgNot only that, but often someone needs to manually masturbate the male shrimp and implant the semen into the female shrimp for reproduction.
I'm not sure what the job title is for someone with this occupation but I really hope it's "Shrimp Wanker"
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Source? Doing that on a shrimp by shrimp basis sounds really tedious. That kind of job is understandable for big animals like sperm whales/horses because you can just get a few big ass loads and impregnate everyone, also baby horses/whale are worth a lot. But shrimp are tiny??
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Huh. Gross and weirdly invasive... also a strange music choice. Thanks for the link though, that is interesting.
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Most commercial shrimp hatcheries rely on natural matings to produce larvae (described by Yano et al. 1988).
This seems to somewhat contradict the impression given from OPs claim that "often someone needs to manually masturbate the male shrimp and implant the semen into the female shrimp". Although at the same time, the source they cite is almost 30 years old… so it probably doesn't reflect the general practices going on right now…
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Lots of eggs though.
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I'd go with shrimp milker.
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Makes sense, because love is blind…
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You beautiful fool.
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And regular shrimp fishing has the worst bycatch by far. Sometimes up to 80% of the tonnage onboard is discarded. Shrimp fishing accounts for 2% total fisheries but provides more than 30% of total bycatch.
Shrimp, eating them is an environmental catastrophe.
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yup and the farms have destroyed like 30% of the worlds mangroves.
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ouch!! so glad i don't eat the lil critters now (allergic)
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eyestalk is such a gnarly word
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When I stalk I let the eyes talk about eyestalk.
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Boo that sucks
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At least it'll grow back.
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crosspost to r/AnimalRights
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This is pretty awful. Check out www.goveg.com for a free vegetarian starter kit.
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fucking gross...no
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Eating plants is gross but dead animals is totally fine?
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Plants are living things too. So I think eating dead things is okay
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The dead animals don't taste like the devil's unholy asscrust. So yes. Well, some of them, anyway.
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The dead animals don't taste like the devil's unholy asscrust. So yes. Well, some of them, anyway.
Plants taste like the devil's unholy asscrust
Alright
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I was going to reply with some choice words, but I checked your comment history and that was more than enough to make me feel bad for you instead. Hope you have a great night!
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I'd rather eat people.
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I think a lot of reproduction would increase if the females couldn't see the males.
it gives spineless bottom-dwellers with good personalities a good shot.
also it helps the shrimp too.
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