Pacific white shrimp: Vannamei is plentiful, thanks to Asia's production spike and Ecuador's recovery from white-spot

摘要

Elgin Hanes, VP of purchasing for Joey's Only Seafood Restaurants, was ahead of the curve five years ago when he switched the shrimp on the casual-seafood chain's menu from black tigers (Penaeus monodon] to Pacific whites (7 vannamet). Pacific whitesrepresented only 21 percent of the global farmed-shrimp harvest of 1.3 million metric tons in 2001, reported the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Over the next two years, production of Pacific whites more than doubled, to 723,858 metric tons, accounting for 40 percent of the global farmed-shrimp harvest of 1.8 million metric tons in 2003, the latest figures available from the FAO.