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Working one shrimp at a time, women workers at Avanti Frozen Foods in Yerravaram, Andhra Pradesh, India, can de-shell and de-vein up to 44 tons of farmed shrimp per day from the company’s 1,600 acres of shrimp ponds. Avanti is one of the largest shrimp exporters in India, which dominates the global shrimp export market. About 75 percent of its frozen shrimp is exported to the United States, with Costco being one of its major customers. Shrimp is the most valuable traded marine product in the world, with an estimated market value of nearly $47 billion in 2022. More than half of that shrimp (55 percent) comes from farms instead of the sea. In 2017, researchers calculated that it took about 0.8 pounds of wild fish—converted to fish oil and fish meal mixed with plant-based food—to make 1 pound of farmed shrimp.

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Working one shrimp at a time, women workers at Avanti Frozen Foods in Yerravaram, Andhra Pradesh, India, can de-shell and de-vein up to 44 tons of farmed shrimp per day from the company’s 1,600 acres of shrimp ponds. Avanti is one of the largest shrimp exporters in India, which dominates the global shrimp export market. About 75 percent of its frozen shrimp is exported to the United States, with Costco being one of its major customers. Shrimp is the most valuable traded marine product in the world, with an estimated market value of nearly $47 billion in 2022. More than half of that shrimp (55 percent) comes from farms instead of the sea. In 2017, researchers calculated that it took about 0.8 pounds of wild fish—converted to fish oil and fish meal mixed with plant-based food—to make 1 pound of farmed shrimp.

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