Do You Love Shrimp?

Learn All About Them

Jack Rudloe and Anne Rudloe

Shrimp are abundant, easy to catch, and delicious. Whether they’re fried, steamed, boiled in beer, or served with sauces and dips, people love the sweet succulent flavor of shrimp. People love to eat shrimp, fishermen roam the seas catching them, and farmers grow them in ponds―creating a conflict that is as old as humanity itself, hunter-gatherers versus agriculture, or, in this case, “aquaculture.” Farmers have provided such a huge global supply of pond-grown cheap shrimp that low prices have nearly destroyed the fishermen.

All this human behavior and activity swirl around small but enormously abundant crustaceans with long whiskers, bulbous eyeballs on stalks, ten legs, and ...

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