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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Coronavirus, shrimp diseases and world market transformations
India and Ecuador replaced faltering Southeast Asian and Chinese production and China became the world's top importer. Coronavirus is squeezing already thin profit margins, bringing both low prices and a new market upturn sooner than expect ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Dietary potassium-diformate (Aquaform) affects growth performance and mortality of Vannamei-shrimp in hatchery and grow-out in worldwide aquaculture
Intensive production of the white leg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone 1931), in Central America and SE Asia is estimated with 3 million t in 2015 (GOAL, 2015). Despite remarkable progress in shrimp nutrition and feed formulation during ...
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Whiteleg shrimp, Atlantic salmon world's top seafood favorites
Consumers have so much more choices of farmed aquatic species to avail of today than over 17 years ago, according to the latest global aquaculture production statistics contained in a report on the "top 10 species groups in global aqua ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
China becomes the world's top shrimp buyer but its output remains a mystery
Whether China produces closer to 400,000 tonnes or a million tonnes of shrimp annually is no longer in question: In less than a decade, a top shrimp exporter has turned into the world' leading importer.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Salmon, shrimp and the crisis in world aquaculture
Salmon: progress, pitfalls and price inflation
Monday, May 14, 2018
A world shrimp market in transition
A former top exporter is now its largest importer. Together with two suppliers that were irrelevant ten years ago, they define the world shrimp trade's supply and demand.
Friday, February 9, 2018
Recovery, revision and revised expectations for world shrimp farming
Shrimp farming is flourishing in some regions, languishing in others. Official statistics have lost touch with reality and overall output is far below predicted long-term levels.
Thursday, October 19, 2017
India dominates world shrimp production, trade
Current supplies of vannamei shrimp are dominated by India, where the full-scale harvests started in June and consisted of large sizes, according to the latest global shrimp market situation report put out by Globefish, the analytical and i ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Disappointed again: More setbacks, downward revisions in world shrimp output and trade
• The collapse of East Asian production has changed world shrimp trade flows • 2017's strong production and export recovery is being held back by China and Southeast Asia's failure to recover from disease and stocking density constraints • ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
A painful reinvention for the world shrimp market
• A new wave of outbreaks has flattened world output 15% below peak levels achieved five years ago • China, Thailand are growing 30% to 50% less shrimp than before. Vietnam sustains production by using costly, less exportable tiger shrimp. ...
Friday, February 5, 2016
A recovery path for the world shrimp market?
• The past three years have seen India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Ecuador take huge market share portions from China and Thailand -but not enough to offset the latter's huge export fall-offs • Barring any serious disease outbreaks, annual outp ...
Friday, September 18, 2015
Dawn of a new world shrimp market: Emerging exporters face intensified competition
Thailand has been dethroned but India, Ecuador and Vietnam will be followed by a handful of even newer, emerging Central America suppliers. The days when two or three countries can have a large chunk of the market to themselves are over.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Lower world prices shrink Vietnam's shrimp export income
Shrimp prices in Vietnam were down slightly in April compared to the previous month with supply exceeding demand and a weak dong dampening exports. Prices of 30-count and 40-count giant tiger prawn declined by VND45,000(US$2.06) and VND30,0 ...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
One world shrimp standard could bring down seafood cost, Vietnam exporters say
Vietnam's shrimp exporters have called for a single certification standard for all levels of the shrimp farming industry, which they claimed accounted for 5% to 10% of their costs.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Thailand, world's ex-biggest shrimp exporter, to become importer
He said Thai shrimp production this year is projected to further drop 42% to 200,000 tonnes, from last year's 250,000 tonnes, due to the lingering early mortality syndrome (EMS) epidemic. An EMS outbreak that started in 2012 killed tonnes o ...

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