Globally, farmed warmwater shrimp accounts for 15 percent of the total value of internationally traded fishery products, and is the top selling seafood item in many countries around the world.
In the United States, for instance, roughly a third of all seafood sold in supermarkets is shrimp, and it is the top seafood consumed, measured on a per-capita basis.
The global shrimp market is also one the most complex of any of the major seafood markets. Production -- both farmed and wild -- is spread around the globe, and international markets utilize dozens of species of shrimp, some just locally, others through a global network of trade.
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