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.
Cumulatitive shrimp population grown yearly under human culture from 1983 – 0.1 MMT to 2019 – 4.87MMT around 68 Million metric tonnes.
That would be 68,000,000,000 kg at around average 20 g whole at harvest – or 50 per kg that is :
3,400,000,000,000 individual shrimp have undergone husbandry in industry – the majority vannamei.
That is 3.4 trillion under US system.
Or 3.4 billion (million x million) in UK system.
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