Shrimp

This past week in class Yu Huang came and spoke to us about the development of shrimp aquaculture in Southern China. She is doing her graduate research on this topic and she gave us some insight into the whole process.



Some of the pros of this type of aquaculture is mass production done in one location, it can reduce fishing pressure, and it can help cause income growth for developing countries. However, the con’s to this type of aquaculture are that they use bad antibiotics and the process could destroy the ability of survival for wild species if they were to breed with the shrimp in the aquaculture. It also is destroying the mangrove forest and they release the waste of the fish into the ocean.

As it was made clear to us, there are many good things as well as draw backs to the development of shrimp aquaculture in Southern China. In my mind, the shrimp all tastes the same to me so as long as there are no shrimp that are being hurt in the process I think it is not that bad of an idea.