After years of financial difficulties coupled with a white spot crisis in the late 1990s, Ecuadorian shrimp producers are finally on the height of their game -- benefiting from the Asian shrimp crisis.

"It's a year for Ecuadorian producers," Jose Antonio Camposano, executive president of Ecuador's Camara Nacional de Acuacultura (National Chamber of Aquaculture; NCA), told IntraFish.

According to latest figures released by the NCA, Ecuador's shrimp exports increased 2 percent in the first six months of the year to 233 million pounds, up from 229.2