INVE Aquaculture and Grupo Caresa organized a seminar on "Enfoques innovadores para mejorar la rentabilidad del cultivo de camarones en Panamá" (Innovative concepts to improve profitability of shrimp farming in Panama) at the Hotel Continental, Panama City, February 22nd, 2008. Gruppo Calesa is the leading integrated shrimp producer in Panama, including CAMACO (Camaronera de Cocle, S.A.) with 1.200 hectares of ponds, molecular biology lab, two maturation facilities and two hatcheries: feedmill INASA (Alimentos Larro, Industrias de Nata S.A.) and processing plant ALTRIX. Over the last 6 years, the feedmill team of INVE Aquaculture has been working closely together with Grupo Calesa and their farm customers on tayloring and optimizing feed formulation in function of the farming conditions for shrimp and fish in Panama. Increasing production costs and decreasing shrimp prices force shrimp farmers more than ever to maximize efficiency and profitability. The seminar provided an update on recent advances achieved by Calesa and INVE in various fields of applied research, showing promising avenues of improving profitability in shrimp farming. After the opening by Lic. Hans Hammerschlag (Grupo Calesa), the global situation of shrimp production and the market outlook was introduced by Lic. Wim Tackaert (INVE Aquaculture, Inc., USA). MORE INFORMATION IN OUR WEB ==> News section