Bull dozers clear and tamp down the dikes separating the ponds. The dikes can then be used as roads for moving around the shrimp farm.
Soil must be the appropriate mix of clay and sand in order to build ponds that hold the clean seawater in which the shrimp grow.
Specially designed hatchery tanks are used for the newly spawned larvae.
Sample shrimp can be caught in these circular weighted nets cast into the ponds.
When the net is drawn in, the edges gather together to make a bag full of shrimp.
These fully-grown shrimp are ready to be iced for the market.
A worker holds a shrimp almost as big as his hand.
Seeds have to be carefully nurtured until they sprout; then they are moved to the nursery. When they are about half a meter tall they are transplanted to assist the reforestation of the mangrove plantations.
Arabian shrimp stocks a nursery with mangrove seedlings for transplantation to the dikes and drainage canals.
Arabian Shrimp workers plant mangrove along the drainage canal of the farm.
