Responsible shrimp farmers (the majority), don’t use or even need chemicals, like pesticides and antibiotics, in their culture.
Plus, shrimp farmers have settling ponds after their culture ponds, with any returning effluent water to the environment generally in better condition then incoming water.
Of course, there are still some cowboys and fish farmers out there who get the media coverage and give the rest of aquaculture a bad name.
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