Shrimp farming is booming. From Thailand and Taiwan in the East to Brazil and Mexico in the West, growers are looking to expand to meet a market which has often been described as, in the words of regular FFI shrimp columnist Charles Woodhouse, "you'll run out of money before you run out of shrimp". KENNY McCAFFREY reports from a tour around some expanding farm sites in the fastest-growing shrimp producer, Brazil, as FFI starts its round-up of the latest developments in this important aquaculture sector

ITAMAR ROCHA is a contented - and extremely busy - man.