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"World Shrimp Farming 2000"
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I offer a 100%, no questions asked, money-back guarantee on World Shrimp Farming 2000. If you don't like what you get, send it back, and I'll refund your money.Hi, I'm Bob Rosenberry, editor/publisher of this series on world shrimp farming. I've made some changes this year.
I dropped the statistical series on world shrimp production because it was based on such skimpy data. Last year I had to fill the gaps with some pretty big guesses. This year it would have taken some outrageous guesses, so I decided to drop the series. Country-by-country statistics on the number of farms, hatcheries and hectares are just not available.
For example, my best piece of information on China? Increased shrimp exports to Japan and the United States. How do you interpret that? As a return of shrimp farming? Probably! Or a big wild catch? Who knows?
Thailand imports a lot of shrimp and then exports it to Japan, the United States and elsewhere. Where does it come from? How much of it was farmed? Fished? Who knows?
Indonesia? Who knows?
The Philippines? Somebody probably knows, but they’re not talking.
India? Five years ago India’s shrimp farming industry was dominated by corporate shrimp farms. Today more than 100,000 small-scale farms produce the crop.
Suddenly the Middle East becomes a player on the shrimp farming scene. Who keeps those statistics? And who’s keeping track of the shrimp farms in Africa?
When the financial crisis hit Southeast Asia in the summer of 1997, small-scale shrimp farms proliferated, while many big projects, struggling with international loans and shrimp whitespot disease, failed. Now, no one has a comprehensive view of shrimp farming in the region.
In the Western Hemisphere, because of the shrimp whitespot virus, the shrimp farming industry has undergone, and continues to undergo, dramatic change. It’s difficult to get a clear picture of the situation. A year ago, who would have guessed that Brazil would be challenging Ecuador for the title of leading producer of farmed shrimp in the Western Hemisphere? That Belize and Colombia would become major producers after having been knocked flat by the Taura virus? That Peru’s production would have dropped to almost nothing? That Venezuela would come alive? That the USA had a chance?
I'll continue to publish statistical information on world shrimp farming as it becomes available from other sources, but I’m no longer going to collect, organize and publish it in-house.
I've expanded and updated some of the articles that are published every year. Production by Species has been renamed Farmed Species and now includes information on the classification of crustaceans, the argument against the proposed name change for some of the farmed penaeids, plus some lighter stuff. The Recommended Reading article has been re-arranged. Books that are no longer in print have been removed, and several new books have been added.
Please forward corrections and comments on this report, and I'll incorporate them into next year's report. Bob Rosenberry, Shrimp News International, 10845 Scripps Ranch Boulevard, No. 4, San Diego, CA 92131 USA (phone 858-271-6354, fax 858-271-0324, email bob@shrimpnews.com, webpage http://www.shrimpnews.com).
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