Our brand new prawn hatchery completed in Senegal!

​Construction of the Upstream Alliance prawn hatchery is now complete!  The hatchery is located on the campus of the Gaston Berger University in St. Louis Senegal. The electricity to the beautiful new building was connected in early July.  The building is ready to receive the tanks, blowers, plumbing, etc. which are en route from the U.S., with the installation and initial operations expected to be complete by October 2016.
 
The outcome of the most recent rearing of brood stock in large ponds has been positive.  This means that the adult Macrobrachium broodstock for the new hatchery will be available from the start of operations (>3000 broodstock).  The permission to work on four other growout ponds has been secured with our partner organization ANIDA in Senegal, based on the positive results from fish and prawns trials that have been ongoing.  This additional capacity will allow us to work with various prawn stages (and/or with two prawn species) simultaneously.