Extracted and farmed shrimp fisheries in Brazil: economic, environmental and social consequences of exploitation

Abstract

This paper analyses shrimp caught from the wild and farmed shrimp in Brazil, focusing on production, amounts exported and earnings, with comparisons drawn to all of South America and the world in general. We show that wild caught shrimp still comprises the majority of what is produced and exported in Brazil, although aquaculture has been taking a relevant role in the internal and external scenario, reaching similar levels of extraction

Last Trip Return Rate Influence Patch Choice Decisions of Small-Scale Shrimp Trawlers: Optimal Foraging in São Francisco, Coastal Brazil

“…Catches were separated according to selling categories (see Table 1), and weight was registered directly from a scale with a precision of 0.5 kg for all catch categories except for white shrimp, for which the scale precision was 0.1 kg. Species identification of the selling categories was based on Graça Lopes et al (2002); Lopes (2008a) and Palomares and Pauly (2009).…”

Accumulation by dispossession in coastal Ecuador: Shrimp farming, local resistance and the gender structure of mobilizations

“…Instead of cost-benefit analyses, other studies have used multi-criteria methods (Nickerson, 1999;Gilbert and Janssen, 1998). From the 1990s onwards, another body of literature, more political ecology-oriented, has studied the inequalities in the benefits of shrimp farming as well as the political access to mangroves (Wester and Lee, 1992;Dewalt et al, 1996;Naylor et al, 1998;Vandergeest et al, 1999;Adger and Lutrell, 2000;Huitric et al, 2002;Lopes, 2008). This corresponds to the approach taken here while we focus on a neglected aspect of this literature.…”

Land-use regime shifts: an analytical framework and agenda for future land-use research

“…• Introduction of exotic shrimp (Penaeus vannamei), with strong results in 1993 (Mole and Bunge 2002, Wurmann et al 2004, Lopes 2008). …”

“…It was not until the introduction of the exotic shrimp species, Penaeus vannamei, with strong results in 1993, that the Brazilian shrimp industry took off (Mole and Bunge 2002, Wurmann et al 2004, Lopes 2008. Interestingly, the development of good management practices during the initial experimentation with low yielding indigenous species served as an important precondition that begat, in part, the high yields that came with the introduction of P. vannamei.…”