The Impacts of Shrimp Production

Eating prawns has major environmental and human rights consequences.


EJF has spent 18 months investigating these impacts and is campaigning for fundamental change in the way prawns (also known as shrimp) are produced.

Trawlers can catch and discard up to 20kg of other marine life for just 1kg of prawns in the tropics. In farms, prawns are fed over twice their weight in fish before they are sold...

Prawn trawling has devastated local fish stocks, leaving poor, local fishers unemployed and hungry. Prawn farms have ruined land and polluted water and reduced food security...

Prawn farms have bought conflict to coastal communities. Threats, intimidation, arson, violence and rape have ensued...

Prawn farms destroy coastal forests and threaten coral reefs and marine wildlife...

Source: The Impacts of Shrimp Production

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