Prawn eyestalks produce a hormone which inhibits gonad production.
By removing (ablating) an eye stalk breeding can be stimulated.
We don't do that!
Instead, we fool our shrimps into thinking it's breeding season.
Our prawns live indoors in a clean and controlled environment.
Unlike pond grown prawns, they are not exposed to diseases and so we have no need to use antibiotics.
We have no pests in our controlled environment, so we don't use pesticides or insecticides.
Predators are also not something which our prawns see, so there's no need for poisoned baits or traps.
The secret to our harvest is ice slurry, imagine a salty Slushy (yuk!).
This chills far more rapidly than the more familiar ice cubes in water.
The rapid transfer from 30C to below 0C renders our prawns insensitive within seconds and stops their hearts shortly thereafter.
Our small daily harvests make this possible. At large scale electrocution or less controlled chilling are necessary- we don't criticize, we just take the opportunity to do better.
Housed safely inside our building our prawns never experience bad weather, extremes of temperature or rain induced swings in salinity. Their environment is always comfortable.
Our prawns benefit from a dedicated team monitoring and optimising their water quality 365 days a year. Oil spills and pollution are not things which our prawns ever experience.
Or tanks contain Prawns, water, salt, feed and a little baking soda. That's it: no chemicals, no antibiotics, no hormones, no growth promotors, and no pesticides. Every pack has a QR code securely linked to information as to their origin, age, feed, harvest date and so on.