Date: March, 2006
Abstract: The global shrimp industry has lately undergone an unusual number of strings of unfortunate events. First, shrimp prices around the globe continued to fall while energy prices seemingly spiraled out of control. Then the Asian tsunami waves hit the coastal areas of Asian countries in late 2004, causing great damage to the livelihoods of people and aquatic hatcheries and nurseries along the coastlines. A few months later, disease struck major producing countries in South America, once consid...
Research Type: F&A Review