Shrimp Farming

Description

Shrimp farming is an aquaculture business that exists in either a marine or freshwater environment, producing shrimp or prawns(crustaceans of the groups Caridea or Dendrobranchiata) for human consumption. Shrimp farming has been one of the most important economic activities in many of the tropical countries of Asia and Latin America during the last three decades due to high demand mainly in USA, Europe and Japan. Shrimp export contributes significantly to the national economy, employment generation and livelihoods and has become an important consumable commodity accounting significantly to global trade in the recent years. When a catastrophe such as this happens, the farms are often abandoned and a new section of mangrove forest is cut down to open up a new operation. Farmed shrimp accounts for 55 percent of the shrimp produced globally. Most shrimp aquaculture occurs in China, followed by Thailand, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador and Bangladesh, and it has generated substantial income in these developing countries. Farming has made shrimp more accessible to an eager, shrimp-loving public in the U.S., Europe, Japan and elsewhere. Investors seeking profits have intensified farming methods with industrialized processes, sometimes at significant cost to the environment. This book provides a description of principles and practices of shrimp culture at one point in time and documents both historical events and conditions now.