Shrimp farms or shrimps harm?: Myths abound about how the farmed shrimp industry can alleviate rural poverty, as the case of Thailand shows

Goss, Jasper Adam (2000) Shrimp farms or shrimps harm?: Myths abound about how the farmed shrimp industry can alleviate rural poverty, as the case of Thailand shows. Samudra Report (26). pp. 33-35. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

During the last two decades, shrimp aquaculture has become an increasingly important alternative to ocean-caught shrimp. By the late 1990s, roughly a quarter of the world’s 2.5 million tonnes of shrimp came from farms, up from just one-twentieth in the early 1980s. Globally, the farmed shrimp industry, which represents a substantial component of the increasingly important aquaculture, has often borne the brunt of criticisms especially about environmental damage. In fact, whether from the North or the South, concerned NGOs have often, quite rightly, campaigned against the industry’s negative impacts upon mangrove systems, its salinization of waterways and its transformation of coastal ecologies.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0326
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Thailand, Aquaculture, Shrimp Culture, Employment, Poverty, Livelihoods, Employment
Subjects:	Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2021 07:39
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 13:27
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/983

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