The Fisheries Division has supplied about 40,000 Giant Freshwater Prawn post-larvae to six local farmers, in a distribution held at the Jimmit State-Owned Fisheries Hatchery. The exercise, dated November 2, 2026, forms part of a broader government drive to expand aquaculture across the Commonwealth of Dominica.
The stock distributed is at the post-larval stage of the Giant Freshwater Prawn, a species that farmers raise in freshwater ponds before growing it on to market size. By supplying young stock directly to producers, the Fisheries Division is giving farmers a starting point for production rather than requiring them to source juveniles elsewhere.
The individual names of the six recipients were not given in the material available to this newsroom, and the full list of beneficiaries was not available. The locations and sizes of the farms receiving the stock have also not been stated.
No information has yet been released on how the stocked prawns are performing, nor on expected harvest volumes or timelines. Those outcomes will determine whether the distribution translates into a lasting boost for local aquaculture, and the newsroom will report on them as they become known.
The distribution was reported by Dominica News Online. Further details of the programme, including any follow-up support for the beneficiary farmers, were not available at the time of writing.
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