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decline in abundance of this species in nature. Giant
freshwater prawn culture has yet a long way to go in
fulfilling the target production from closed waters of
Bangladesh. As the culture of this species is being
suffering from the problem of lower production
performance, maintenance of appropriate sex ratio
(1♂: 1♀) in the brood banks with better feeding
practice may be a plausible solution on a preliminary
basis to get rid of this problem as it can provide
genetically more variable and high yielding seeds. It is
expected that the higher the male competition, the
higher the chance of morphotypes formation in
M
.
rosenbergii
but 1♂:1♀ ratio in a breeding population
is essential for its gene pool conservation and though
there will be more male in the culture system ensuring
greater competition, innovative measures has to be
brought in the culture system to reduce male
competition. Further research is needed to test the
relation between sex ratios, growth and male
morphotypes formation in order to solve prevailing
problems of
M
.
rosenbergii
culture.
Acknowledgement
The authors are highly thankful to the Ministry of Science and Technology,
Bangladesh for their financial support. The help of Mr. Mannan for
technical assistances is also greatly acknowledged.
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