Staff showing the shrimps after catching from the pond at the shrimp and fish farm behind Al Reem Island in Abu Dhabi on June 24,2021. The total area of the island is around 86 hectares and have now 58 ponds (2,1,0.5& 0.25 hectares sizes), Nurseries and Grow out section, hatchery complex, preprocessing facility, different sections in hatchery include brood stock section, spawning section, larval rearing & post larval rearing sections. They have a staff of around 40 people including the maintenance section. In 2005 Dr. Gopakumar joined the company as Manager and full-fledged production started with full expansion of the island during 2006. The capacity of the farm is 1.5 to 2 tons shrimps per day depending on the market requirements they produce every year. In 2015 they establish the state-of-the-art RAS facility to produce marine finfish under controlled conditions. A very cost effective, ecofriendly , sustainable method to raise fishes. They produce, sea bream, sea bass, barramundi, Tilapia, grouper (Hamoor) in this RAS facilities. They have 3 RAS facilities under al Jaraf fisheries. This is the UAE’s first and only commercial shrimp farm. Pioneer in the shrimp aquaculture in UAE. Pawan Singh / The National

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Watch: inside the UAE's only shrimp farm

This is how Al Jaraf Fisheries produces millions of shrimp and fish in one of the world’s driest countries

Nilanjana Gupta
Nilanjana Gupta

July 01, 2021

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Updated: July 01, 2021, 2:23 PM

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