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To meet consumer’s seemingly insatiable appetite for shrimp, one of the world’s largest industrial aquaculture groups, Charoen Pokphand Foods, or CPF, announced plans this month for a new $51.3 million hatchery and shrimp farm in Thailand’s Trat province.
What does this mean for consumers? Well, more “cheap” shrimp, for starters. But for the rest of the planet, it means the destruction of mangrove forest, increased freshwater depletion and the further reduction of access to the sea for local fishing communities who use the mangrove as a point of entry for fishing. Not to mention the antibiotics often used to keep these shrimp healthy in their cramped ponds, or the unsustainable use of wild fish for shrimp feed.
When you factor all that in, just how cheap are these shrimp?
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