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 related material……
Over time farmed salmon have shown to have a lowered levels of Omega 3. Addition into diet therefore is important.
Would be interesting to profile wild vannamei to X generation farmed shrimp.
This to see the effect of farming over time – has anything changed? Can feed and genetics help convert shrimp into packaged complete functional food?
https://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&ndb=1&id=104074
So where does aquaculture sit in all this?
Specifically shrimp is an obvious good choice. Plankton, grown in majority of shrimp ponds, absorb carbon.
Can shrimp protein also help fight climate change….or, at very least, have a positive positioning relative to other proteins out there.
Lot of talk about how US shrimp marketing could follow an avocado marketing HAB – Hass Avocado Board strategy approach.
Will be interesting what those promoting this approach will come up with.
Shrimp and avocados do go well together though…
Has anyone tried ageing shrimp one wonders?
What does work though is having a healthy diet and including shrimp of course!
Overcome your “fear of fish”…….
…..eat shrimp!
https://progressivegrocer.com/seafood-merchandising-best-practices-highlighted-sena
“He says under-40s want “quick-fix health products that promise added vitamins, gut health, protein, relaxation” in an “affordable pocket-sized offering”.
It’s the mindset that everything has to do something else, has to be multi-functional, in this smartphone generation – and that goes for food and drink as well,”
Mr Beckett says.
