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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Different Types of Prawn Production Systems

There are several different systems and the intensity of the production systems vary wildly. In Latin America, for example, they use mostly what they call extensive methods. And one of the things that we work on, which you correctly said, is crowdiness. So, depending on the system, there are levels that the water just cannot sustain the biological demand that the animals place on the water. The profitability really increases but the level of investment that's required to get to those other systems also increases dramatically.

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