Thailand to become shrimp importer this year as local production falls to 200,000 tons
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - Oct 1, 2014
Poj Aramwattananont, president of the Thai Frozen Foods Association, speaking to the Nation Newspaper, said Thai shrimp still faced problems over Early Mortality Syndrome, which had caused a decline in output from last year's level to about 200,000 tons this year. In 2013, Thailand produced about 250,000 tons of finished products.
He said that processing plants would need to import shrimp from India, Vietnam, or Ecuador...
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