The most-read story of last week was the news that American Mariculture (AMI), the US' biggest breeder of shrimp, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Florida-based company ...

Though tiny and delicate looking, Riverside fairy shrimp are spectacularly adapted to living in vernal pool habitats, able to hatch, grow, breed, and lay eggs in a single wet season — usually only ...

BREEDING: Riverside fairy shrimp deposit eggs or cysts (organisms in a resting stage) in their pool's soil to wait out dry periods. The hatching of the cysts usually occurs from January to March ...