Volume 66 (2009)

We have worked with Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De
Man, 1879) for 35 years in Puerto Rico. EHW began working with a
commercial shrimp farm in Cabo Rojo in 1975 and afterwards with other
farms (Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1999a, b; Williams &
Sindermann, 1992; Williams et al., 2001). DEA began his research and
that of his students on this animal at the Lajas Experiment Station in
1980 (e.g. Alston, 1989, 1991; Alston & Garcia-Pérez, 2000;
Garcia-Pérez & Alston, 2000; Garcia-Pérez et al., 2000; Cole et