Shrimp fishery

The shrimp fishery is a major global industry, with more than 3.4 million tons caught per year, chiefly in Asia.

[3] Both of these developments took off in the 1880s, and were soon applied to shrimp fisheries, especially following the research effort of the Norwegian marine biologist Johan Hjort.

[5] This has led to international controversies, with some United States fishermen accusing countries such as Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand and Vietnam of dumping shrimp on the US market, while some of the producing nations protested to the World Trade Organization about duties levied by the US in response to the inferred dumping.

[2] Although the various species of the genus Acetes are not always distinguished by fishermen, collectively they form the world's largest shrimp fishery.

[14] Bycatch is a serious problem for warm-water shrimp fisheries, with inadvertent catches of sea turtles being among the most contentious issues.

[20] The Nordmøre grid was invented by the Norwegian fisherman Paul Brattøy, primarily as a means of excluding jellyfish from shrimp catches, and introduced in 1989.

[19] Fisheries for cold-water shrimp using pots, the bycatch is mostly of invertebrates, including squat lobsters, crabs, molluscs and echinoderms.

It's a truly remarkable sight to see these sturdy Brabant horses wading into the shallow waters, pulling heavy nets behind them as the fishermen guide them.

Shrimp trawler preparing to set gear off the coast of Oregon
A traditional push net, to be operated by hand near the coast. In use in The Netherlands up to 1955.
Shrimp bycatch
Global capture of wild shrimp and prawn species in million tonnes, 1950–2010, as reported by the FAO [ 9 ]
Shrimp paste drying below the Kap Shui Mun Bridge , Hong Kong
Pandalus borealis , the most important cold-water shrimp species
"Shrimp fisherman on horseback", a local method of shrimp fishing; painting by the Belgian painter Albert Crahay (1881-1914)