Re: Another retail casualty : Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:51 am
MattyB wrote:
I saw a documentary a few months ago on this fish (or something very similar), where the reporter visited the farm in Vietnam and found some of the fish had been deliberately mutilated (think it was one eye removed..IIRC??) as it enhanced the virility in the male allowing them to increase their stocks.
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I think you're getting a bit confuddled mate. It's farmed tiger prawn that sometimes have one eye removed to increase fecundity in females.
There's one weird treatment that pangasius suffer though: female fish are injected with a solution that contains pregnant human urine, this also has the effect of increasing spawning rates. It does beg the question of how they came to this conclusion and what other methods were tried before deciding that pregnant women's piss was best