Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyestalk_ablation
TIL shrimp farmers deliberately blind female shrimp, to stimulate egg production
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do they check one by one in shrimp farms? i mean shrimp farm has fuckton of shrimps. i can’t even imagine how they’d do it.
TL;DR a hormone made in the eyestalk is needed to mature the ovaries. Which will happen after the cut in 3 to 10 days. Plus the newly dim lighting help set the mood. Side note it’s been observed Tiger prawns regenerate eyesight in 6 months.
Cruel
Wait until feminists hear about this
Harsh.
I know there’s a joke here about reproduction and going blind, but I just don’t see it.