Ecuador, India shine in sluggish shrimp farming sector

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Global shrimp production is currently growing at a slow rate of 4.8 percent per year that will see it reach a total volume of around five million metric tons (MT) by 2019, delegates heard at the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) GOAL 2017 conference in Dublin, Ireland.

While a few shining lights like India and Ecuador have seen their production levels soar in recent years, the impact of their growth from a global perspective has been tempered by a contraction of the Chinese harvest, wh…


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