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.
Of course they were gaming the system by a) government subsidies b) using cheap local feed that was not traceable.
Thai operators did not want GAA standards that would mean transparency and traceability – so were furious at suggestions that something fishy was going on….
In 2014 the reasons became clear and obvious – slave labor.
Meanwhile plenty of time to repurpose and re-position profits.
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