Skimp on the shrimp

Wild shrimp are generally caught by bottom trawling, dragging nets along the sea bottom. Landings of wild shrimp fisheries are between 2 and 3 million tonnes a year. But with virtually all of the world's major stocks of wild shrimp heavily exploited or overexploited, there simply aren't enough shrimp to meet the giant and growing consumer demand in Europe and in the USA.

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