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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  DOA Shrimp
If you are fishing in shallow grass, by holding your rod up high this allows the shrimp to be moved across the top of the grass in an upward motion and should allow the shrimp to swim across the top of the grass.
The distance between the cork and the shrimp depends on the depth of the water and where you want the shrimp to be in the water column.
shrimp and sight casting to bone fish cast the lure about 2 feet in front of the fish and move the shrimp very slowly across the bottom.
www.doalures.com /shrimp.htm   (674 words)

  
 So Much Shrimp
Still, shrimp fishermen from the Carolinas to Texas say it's not their shrimp, for the most part, that people are peeling or chasing.
Water pollution went unchecked as farm waste in the form of chemical fertilizers used to promote the growth of algae (which is used as shrimp food) was flushed into a nearby coastal sea or river system.
In June 2002 the FDA announced an increase in sampling of imported shrimp to determine the presence of chloramphenicol, a potent antibiotic used to fight serious infections in humans and by some shrimp farmers to control bacterial growth in ponds.
www.kitchengardeners.org /somuchshrimp.html   (1455 words)

  
 oceans campaign, shrimp aquaculture
Shrimp are farmed in large ponds, usually dug to a depth of at least one meter, and the pond levees are formed either by hand or by earth moving equipment.
Shrimp has a high profile with American consumers, due to substantial promotion and advertising by the seafood industry, and growth in demand for farmed shrimp in the short term is expected to be significant.
Shrimp aquaculture provides a particularly disturbing example: as the intensity of operations and the density of shrimp farms has exploded along tropical coastlines, there has been degradation of coastal ecosystems and hardships suffered by neighboring communities; wild stocks of shrimp, and now even the cultured stocks, are collapsing due to rampant disease and other problems.
archive.greenpeace.org /oceans/shrimpaquaculture/shrimpreport.html   (7922 words)

  
 Ocean Garden Products - Products - Shrimp
Shrimp eggs or larvae are either gathered from the natural environment or grown in hatcheries after being taken from female brood stock.
The brown shrimp consumed in the U.S. are primarily harvested in the Gulf of Mexico, along the southeast Atlantic coast, and along the east and west coasts of Mexico.
Coldwater shrimp are wild-harvested from the northern waters of Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and the U.S. coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Maine.
www.oceangarden.com /eng/shrimp/types.htm   (1066 words)

  
 The First Certified Organic Shrimp Farm in the World - Ecuador, Conservation, Ecology
The first shrimp farms were built 30 years ago, and, shortly thereafter, in 1977, a shrimp boom ensued.
Many members of the community were employed on the shrimp farms in caring for the ponds, managing the pump stations, harvesting the ponds, and guarding them at night.
Ecuador was once famous for being the largest producer of shrimp in the world, later the tables turned and it’s fame was tainted by the social and environmental injustice of the industry, leading to protest and boycotts on Ecuadorian shrimp in Europe.
www.riomuchacho.com /html/shrimpfarm.htm   (2623 words)

  
 fishfarming.com - experts in aquaculture, fish farming, shrimp aquaculture and tilapia farming
Shrimp farming continues to be one of the fastest growing sectors of the entire aquaculture industry.
The 1980's were the boom years for the shrimp farming industry here and by 1995, the value of exported shrimp had reached $668 million.
Another important reason why recirculating shrimp farming technology will increasingly be selected as the system of choice will be the ability to locate the facility away from the coastal regions and potentially near urban markets.
www.fishfarming.com /shrimp.html   (1046 words)

  
 Thriving Guatemala Shrimp Farm Sets Off a Conflict
The pumps belong to a shrimp farm and suck water from the mangroves to nurture 54 corporate ponds that need to be flushed every 10 days as they raise shrimp for export.
At stake is the balance between the rights of companies that invest in the shrimp farms and the needs of traditional fishermen who have found it increasingly difficult to survive.
Moreira of the shrimp farm said the lack of fish was a natural phenomenon that had hit the Pacific Coast for three years.
www.phoenix.liu.edu /~uroy/externalities/SHRIMP.htm   (1500 words)

  
 Business: Harvesting shrimp a jumbo headache
Shrimp farming, a $5-billion global business, is as much an art as a science.
Each farm's harvest has to be handled separately, carefully marked and tracked from the minute the bin comes in the door to when the shrimp are packed in 5-pound boxes, bound for the freezer.
Though the shrimp were only halfway through their growing cycle, they had to be harvested immediately or lost.
www.sptimes.com /News/102200/Business/Harvesting_shrimp_a_j.shtml   (3943 words)

  
 Algae Eating Freshwater Shrimp
These shrimp are very young....about 1/4" total length.
As with the emerald grass and rainbow shrimp, this shrimp is also variable in color and is not always green.
Interestingly, the red markings you see in the photo are not easily evident on the shrimp under normal lighting.
www.franksaquarium.com /freshwatershrimpfarm.htm   (173 words)

  
 India & China Stage: Team Dispatch - May 27, 2000
Shrimp aquaculture - or shrimp farming - in India is a very good example of what happens when development projects and free trade don't work as well as they should.
Shrimp aquaculture was developed as a way to produce more shrimp for consumption than fishing has in the past.
These big shrimp aquaculture companies did hire people from neighboring villages to work on the shrimp farms, but as it turns out, these farms were more capital-intensive and didn't need a lot of labor.
www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/asia/052700/052700teamshrimpmad.html   (1007 words)

  
 Rise and Fall of the Blue Revolution - Mangrove Action Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Farmed shrimp production has truly skyrocketed, rising from just 26 thousand metric tons of production in the 1970s to 100,000 metric tons in the early 1980s to over 700,000 metric tons in 1995.
However, with the rapid spread of shrimp farming, we are all being forced to fly this dangerous mission with great prospects of an industry crash endangering all of us and the very planet on which we live.
The failure of national governments to adequately regulate the shrimp industry, and the headlong rush of multilateral lending agencies to fund aquaculture development without meeting their own stated ecological and social criteria, are other important pieces to this unfortunate puzzle.
www.earthisland.org /map/blrvl.htm   (3074 words)

  
 Organic shrimp, South Tropical Shrimp Farm Brand - Articles
In Thailand with average farm size of 1.5 to 2.5 hectares we might find a lot more worker-owner having their own home at the farm than only workers with a boss at the city.
In Ecuador due the farm size the ownership is for people living in the city having workers in the farm and in the office in the city.
Organic density controlled shrimp farm with a short commercialization chain should be a good approach to enhance social aspects.
www.southtropical.com /html/Articles/2-2004.htm   (600 words)

  
 Good Stuff? - Shrimp | Worldwatch Institute
Grassroots environmental groups in farmed areas are teaming up with international activists to promote more ecologically sound shrimp farming.
Industrial Shrimp Action Network (ISA Net) (www.shrimpaction.com) works with communities worldwide to address the impacts of large-scale shrimp aquaculture and supports and encourages sustainable, responsible shrimp farming.
Shrimp Sentinel (www.earthsummitwatch.org/shrimp) is an online forum for discussion and dialogue on the environmental and social impacts of growing global shrimp production.
www.worldwatch.org /node/1500   (686 words)

  
 Organic Shrimp Farm Ecuador
This shrimp farm is located close to Bahia de Caraquez Ecocity in the estuary of the Chone River.
The methods used on the farm are based on principles of organic farming and permaculture.
Shrimp is not the only crop here, the dykes are used for growing aloe vera, papaya and almonds, as well as seed producing trees which is harvested for the shrimp food itself.
www.riomuchacho.com /html/shrimp.html   (295 words)

  
 Corporacion El Trozadero S.A.
Shrimp farming is primarily an agricultural business, with emphasis on new technologies developed for the production of shrimp, a food resource and commodity.
With the worldwide demand for shrimp growing and the harvesting of shrimp from the sea dwindling, El Trozadero Corporacion is in an excellent position to farm shrimp.
This shrimp farm project's main objective is to become a successful endeavor with the profits to benefit the owners and all those associated with it by increasing the exports of the country and by generating income for local employees and their communities.
www.4biz.com /shrimp   (816 words)

  
 Shrimp - Xdesign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Because of the infertile nature of the Sarigua National Park’s soil, it was not necessary to destroy the land to establish the farm at its inception.
After the shrimp reaches an appropriate size, it is harvested by placing a net in front of the drainage system and puming the water out into the ocean.
Despite this proclamation, the majority of the shrimp raised in the farms is eaten abroad; this reality demystifies the principles that promote and establish aquaculture in developing countries.
xdesign.ucsd.edu /wiki/index.php/Shrimp   (2652 words)

  
 Coetivy shrimp farm
Shrimp farming was identified as a way to develop the islands and a pilot project of 4 ponds was started on Coetivy, the closest coral island to Mahe, which was large enough.
The shrimp feed is produced on Mahe according to the needs of the farm and is consumed within 1 month after production.
The discharge water of the farm is taken away by the sea current and eaten by fish, without negatively affecting the environment and surely not affecting our own farm.
www.vds-afs.be /coetivy.htm   (691 words)

  
 Fresh Shrimp means Wild Shrimp from FreshFromTheBoat.com
Over-farming of shrimp is leading to “dead zones” in the ocean – places where the natural habitat is being killed off by the byproducts of the shrimp farms.
Disease ridden shrimp languished near the surface of the water, and the gulls dove down to the
Similar scenes have been repeated on shrimp farms from India to Ecuador, Thailand to Texas.
www.freshfromtheboat.com /Shrimp.html   (488 words)

  
 International Market Research - Derby Holdings Malindi Shrimp Farm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Once the shrimp farm and processing plant are completed, Derby intends to produce approximately 2.4 million Kg’s of shrimp each year.
This shrimp farm will be the first of its kind in Kenya, and will provide needed competition to other major shrimp producers around the world.
The shrimp farm will be modeled after the Shrimp Farm in Coetivy, Seychelles, which has been successful at producing quality shrimp for the local and export markets.
strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr113053e.html   (970 words)

  
 Welcome to Desert Sweet Shrimp! (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.columbia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The idea of raising shrimp in the desert came about by a series of experiments and accidents culminating in the discovery that shrimp raised here in Arizona may be the best tasting shrimp in the world.
We have developed the shrimp farm to be both environmentally friendly and sustainable.
Our gourmet shrimp are characterized by their clean, sweet taste and are so uncommonly flavorful, that many shrimp lovers prefer to serve them as "stand alones".
www.desertsweetshrimp.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.html   (220 words)

  
 The Cincinnati Post
In Northern Kentucky, Bluegrass Shrimp Farm at 4425 Ernst Bridge Road in Ryland harvests three weekends in the fall.
Wilson said the shrimp, which vary in size from 2 to 4 inches at harvest, grow better in Kentucky because of the cooler temperature.
Wilson and others transfer the shrimp from two ponds to several tubs of water, then weigh them and put them in bags of ice or coolers for customers.
www.cincypost.com /2003/09/23/shrimp092303.html   (504 words)

  
 Shrimp Processing, Shrimp Aquaculture, Shrimp Trawlers, Shrimp Farming - Sahlman Seafoods, Inc.
Sahlman Seafoods, Inc. is a fully-integrated production company that catches, processes, farms and markets raw, headless shrimp under the brand "Bee Gee." The company has a fleet of 31 freezer shrimp trawlers and a processing and vessel repair facility in Georgetown, Guyana, South America.
The company completed construction of a shrimp farm and processing plant in Nicaragua in 1997.
In addition, there is a processing plant located in Chinandega, Nicaragua and a farm on the island of Mangles Altos, Nicaragua which is located on the most northwestern part of the country along the Honduran border.
www.sahlmanseafood.com   (332 words)

  
 Public Citizen | Open Oceans and Aquaculture - Shrimp Aquaculture
Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants.   Aquaculture can be done in inland freshwater environments and in or adjacent to the sea.   Like all farming, it involves some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, and protection from predators.
The Shrimp Alert is a listserve that brings breaking news on shrimp aquaculture, from trade issues to consumer health impacts, straight to you.
Until recently, shrimp were caught in the open ocean, but today most shrimp are "farmed" in tropical coastal areas where saltwater is available and waste can be flushed into the ocean.
www.citizen.org /cmep/foodsafety/shrimp   (716 words)

  
 Organic shrimp, South Tropical Shrimp Farm Brand - Articles
After 4 years from the white spot virus outbreak, conventional Ecuadorian shrimp farmers are learning to use pro-biotics instead of antibiotics widely used the 2 first years after the outbreak.
I'm convince that the organic commercialization has to be different in the organic shrimps than the conventional shrimps.
The presence of a Organic shrimp importer in Ecuador, the country with the highest number of shrimps pond hectares in the world (180.000 hectares), is necessary to promote the farms conversion and to standardize commercialization process in this new item, besides it´s logical in a product that shall be cultivated extensively due stock density limits.
www.southtropical.com /html/Articles/2-2003.htm   (774 words)

  
 REPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THAILAND ON SHRIMP FARM DEVELOPMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The report gives an account of shrimp farm development investigations, including small-scale larval culture experiments in which five species were grown to post-larval size from eggs spawned in the laboratory.
Research to produce shrimp in hatcheries should be conducted, but it is important that pond management skills be developed before additional shrimp from hatcheries are provided to traditional type farmers.
Supplemental feeding is not considered necessary at this stage of development in the traditional practice of shrimp farming in Thailand.
www.fao.org /docrep/005/D4229E/D4229E00.htm   (452 words)

  
 Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
The 40-hectare farm, which cost US$2.3 million, uses advanced technology that protects the environment, said Nguyen Dinh Thiet, chairman of the farm's owner, the Trung Viet NDT Joint Stock company, a subsidiary of the US-based NTD Group.
Nguyen Quoc Vinh, director of the Trung Viet shrimp farm, said the shrimp will be bred for export only and will be sold primarily to the US, Japan, South Korea and Europe.
The shrimp are expected to weigh about 29 grams when fully grown, and will be harvested three times a year.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EL13Ae02.html   (324 words)

  
 The Happy Shrimp Farm - eco-industrial tropical shrimp farm in the port of Rotterdam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Happy Shrimp Farm is the first tropical shrimp farm in Europe.
It is an example of a new eco-industrial company in the port of Rotterdam that benefits the economy and environment.
Our greenhouse-enclosed farm is located on the dunes near the city of Rotterdam.
happyshrimp.nl   (111 words)

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