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Shrimp Farms Said To Harm Poor Nations
2004.06.04 . .
Growing consumer demand for shrimp is fuelling an environmental crisis in some of the world's poorest nations, according to a new report from the Environmental Justice Foundation. The report, titled Farming the Sea, Costing the Earth, claims it has exposed wide-ranging environmental damage that can be directly attributed to shrimp farming. The report says that shrimp farming is destroying wetlands, polluting the land and oceans, and depleting wild fish stocks. The report claims that as much as 38 percent of global mangrove destruction is linked to shrimp farm development. Shrimp farming can adversely affect wild fish stocks through pollution and destruction of wetlands, through unsustainable levels of bycatch during shrimp collection from the sea and through the introduction of diseases. Janet Brown, a U.K. expert on shrimp farming, cautioned about some of the report's main points. "The issue is very complicated. Shrimp farming is different in every country it's carried out in," she told BBC News Online. To download the complete report, go to:
http://www.ejfoundation.org/reports.html#costofshrimp
---SOURCE: BBC News Online, May 19, 2004.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3728019.stm
***A four-page booklet on buying shrimp, A Consumer Guide to Prawns, is available at the same website.
Source: SeaSpan. The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, a program of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science. http://www.pewoceanscience.org
Updated: 3/6/06; 12:18:08 AM.
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