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Shrimp farming in Asia faced some familiar foes as well as some fairly new obstacles.
“A number of challenges including drought, early mortality syndrome and a European Union yellow card, has led to mounting losses and industry contraction in the Asian shrimp farming industry,” wrote SeafoodSource Contributing Editor Chris Loew.
“Most raw shrimp is sourced from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and India, while processed shrimp comes from Thailand,
Large sizes for shrimp were in short supply in India and Asia nearly halfway through the year.
“We try to import big sizes of wild-catch material, but it is difficult to get above 11-15, 8-12,” one importer said. “A lot of our customers try to keep big sizes of black tiger 4-6 and 8-12, but there is not enough stock.”
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