Best Management Practices for Minimizing Impacts of White Spot Syndrome Virus in Crawfish Production
Research has shown that population density, management of water quality and forage crops has roughly 20 times as much influence on crawfish size as genetics do. Although many producers have the idea that adding new stock to their permanent ponds will somehow improve the size and yield of their crawfish through some genetic mechanism, this is not the case. The good thing about this finding is that if a pond has an established, healthy population, there is no need for supplemental stocking and the risk of introducing WSSV can be avoided entirely.