Stocking of shrimp at high stocking rates resulted in the production of small tail counts that fetched an inferior price with respect to the larger tail counts produced at lower densities.
The largest tail counts (size 26-30 during the wet season) were obtained at the lowest stocking densities, but total pond yields were not sufficient to generate the highest net return coefficients.
Only occasionally did high stocking densities result in superior net return coefficients, such as in March (the stunting effect caused by overstocking was not very pronounced during this month).