In Thailand, shrimp farmers are producing more small sizes because of high volumes of large vannamei expected from Indonesia and India.
“The continuous high prices on small-size raw material have led many farmers to focus on raising small sizes for the market,” said Jim Gulkin, managing director of Thailand-based frozen seafood supplier Siam Canadian Group.
Unless the market trend changes, farmers will likely keep on raising small sizes, he told IntraFish.
“Price on large-size raw material slumped as demand shrunk and strong supply was available from India and Indonesia making price gap between large and small shrimp too small for Thai farmers to see much incentive in raising large shrimp,” he said.
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