Ecuador's higher shrimp processing costs are responsible for a 5 percent loss of US market share to rivals such as India over the past six years, said Jose Antonio Camposano, president of the National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA) .

The CNA chief was responding to a tweet by Alberto Acosta Burneo, editor of Analisis Semanal and columnist of the Vistazo magazine, who said Ecuador's market share had fallen from 12.1