The steadily growing supply output from the world's largest shrimp producers will see prices consequently declining gradually through, the next year, a new report by Rabobank, titled A New Dawn for the Prawn, suggests.

Nevertheless, the volatile and high-price situation could last in the medium term, according to report authors Pawan Kumar and Gorjan Nikolik, who both work for the bank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory department.

In 2014, increased supply, especially of smaller sizes, in combination with the rationing of demand, caused vannamei prices to contract, but only partially, as prices are still at a relatively high point.

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