... the demand for Artemia cysts soon exceeded the offer and prices rose exponentially, turning Artemia into a bottleneck for the expansion of the hatchery aquaculture of marine fishes and crustaceans. ... Wanigasekera, G., Simonek, S., Brownlee, D., Eiband, G. and Cowan, J. 1993. Ecological, physiological and genetic divergence of sexual and asexual (diploid and polyploid) brine shrimp (Artemia). Trends ... shrimp hatchery. SIZE AND ENERGY CONTENT The nutritional effectiveness of a food organism is primarily determined by its ingestibility and, as a consequence, by its size and form (see further:...