While recent decisions by major retailers to drop Thai shrimp suppliers have grabbed headlines, most big US shrimp buyers had moved out of Thailand before the shrimp supply chain slavery scandal and the US State Department's downgrade of the country's labor status in its "Trafficking in Persons" (TIP) report, Todd Rushing, co-founder of online start-up ShrimpTrader, told IntraFish.

Despite cautious optimism at the beginning of the year, it became clear very quickly Thai shrimp production was "off significantly" due to the impacts of the Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) disease.

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