Promising to tell you the Prawn, the whole Prawn and nothing but the Prawn. Here I shine a light on global shrimp aquaculture and downstream markets. For those looking in from outside and those inside interested in the wider outside. Food trends, intelligence, tech, regulatory, investment and some fun, way out, or even wacky, shrimp material. Compressing 4,000 years of shrimp knowledge into 40 years – and counting.
Being part of the team with Lyons Seafoods that obtained first ever business continuity in a UK food company – BS25999 (Now ISO 22301 & 22313) – we did play many what/if scenarios. Including pandemics, market and supply chain ruptures. 300+ business disruption plans. 2008
Standard practice 14 years on?
Yes shrimp industry has plenty experience…..arthropods don’t have same antiviral immune system as human animals.
Vaccine dips don’t work like on fish.
Other options have had to be developed revolving around getting reaction directly in shrimp via feeding and nutrition.
…..this is as advanced animal husbandry technologies as one can imagine over 35+ years while bring tested on billions (of prawn of course)…
Missing at the top of the list and covering all generations regardless.
Food safety.
Frozen is a safety step and nowadays is the best technology available. That and washing hand SOP’s developed as past of the NASA HACCP protocols.
Sorry but fresh is just not where the last mile is gonna work for seafood – shrimp anyway. Maybe OK for salmon guys but hard to see how fresh fits in with food safety.
One wants convenience, this means deheading and peeling – fresh is not advisable thence. Too much handling. Freezing good quality step.
Also convenience may mean use of chemicals. Try to find a peeled shrimp that does not have an e-number in it.
Fresh anyway is never as good as live but we now know what wet markets entail and frozen technology is a best primary step.
Where does hunting for fish as seafood sit? Farmed is an option on the path to help against industrial resource exoitation….but probably low on list and under catch-all sustainability.
Farmed frozen clean deck using domesticated species best option.
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