shrimp farming
Raising prawns commercially
Shrimp farming is the commercial cultivation of shrimp in controlled aquatic environments—typically coastal ponds or inland tanks.
The industry supplies most of the world's shrimp for human consumption: Thailand and Ecuador dominate shrimp farming.
Environmental concerns include habitat destruction, water pollution, and disease outbreaks that require heavy antibiotic use.
- mangrovesSalt-water coastal trees
- aquacultureFarming underwater organisms
- moltingPeriodic shedding of covering
- carapaceProtective dorsal exoskeleton
- estuariesRiver-sea meeting points
tiger prawns · prawns · brackish · paddlewheel · crustacean · larvae · fishing industry · salinity · disease management · aeration · hatchery · tanks · ponds · harvest · export · export market · nets · seafood
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, crop yields
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- aquaculturefish farms, aquaculture, fish farm, fish ponds, hatcheries
- fisheriescommercial fishing, fishing boats, fisheries, fishing nets, fishing fleets
- island economiesfishing, tourism, copra, sugarcane, shipbuilding
- invertebrate farmingbeekeeping, apiculture, vermiculture, bee keeping
shrimp farmingshrimp trawling
Net-dragging for prawns
wild harvest · commercial fishing · net fishing · subsistence fishing
shrimp farmingcattle ranching
Raising bovines commercially
crop farming · livestock farming · poultry farming · grain farming · hog farming
shrimp farmingsustainable fishing
Harvesting that preserves populations