Almost 44 million black tiger shrimp and 75 million vannamei shrimp have been lost in the Vietnamese province of Tra Vinh due to volatile weather that causes diseases to spread, reports Vietnam Net.
As of March, Tra Vinh had more than 7,000 farmers raising nearly 600 million black tiger shrimp and 2,240 households raising 524 million white leg shrimp.
However, figures are set to decline.
"I raised over 100,000 shrimps in four ponds and they all died," said Nguyen Van Tuoi, a farmer in Long Hanh Hamlet.
