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3 days ago

Fish FeelWho thinks up such monstrous things?

Removing the eyestalk ("ablation") of female shrimps who are used for breeding is standard practice worldwide, and "helped fuel the explosive growth of commercial-scale aquaculture over the past quarter-century."

"Retailers and buyers want the hatcheries to stop using eyestalk ablation” due to public concern.

"[A]blated females have a high mortality rate," while "the offspring of non-ablated [females] are more robust animals with a higher survival rate when they are challenged by...disease," which also "reduce[s] the need for chemicals and antibiotics"

Ablation is done to increase egg production but research is showing that this can instead be achieved with better nutrition during the females' developmental stage, or by increasing the ration of male-to-female shrimps. Of course, animals shouldn't be subjected to any such exploitation.

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