Author : Stephanie Mandana Bahramian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (126 download)
Book Synopsis Shrimp Farming, Slavery, and Ecological Devastation in the Mangrove Forests of Asia by : Stephanie Mandana Bahramian
Download or read book Shrimp Farming, Slavery, and Ecological Devastation in the Mangrove Forests of Asia written by Stephanie Mandana Bahramian and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades-old destruction of mangroves due in large part to shrimp aquaculture has put the local ecosystems in peril and the people involved in the production phase at enormous risk. Products that have undergone third-party certification can be procured by retailers supplying shrimp to promote superior aquaculture practices in order to mitigate this devastating economic engine. This thesis was designed as an analysis of shrimp products available at all retailers in Hartford County, Connecticut to evaluate market penetration of certified products. Site visits allowed for quantifiable measurement of the extent of customer access to the certified goods. It was during the data collection phase that the issue of how a certified product could be so affordable that called into question whether the third parties themselves should, too, be evaluated. The four-year delay in completing this thesis write-up has provided an opportunity to evaluate changes in the market, as well as consumer and media attention into the provenance of the shrimp we consume and the question of how it came to market. It would appear that the timing of this topic was ideal as there has been an increase recently in a variety of news sources reporting on the problem of shrimp production. Some of the attention is typically anthropocentric and driven by the alarm of the quality of the shrimp that we are consuming and less guided by a need to look at the devastation on the lives and on the environments that source the commodity. Nevertheless, much has written about the slave labor involved in the chain of custody in bringing the products to market. Third party certifiers are one of the best points of intervention, but who is policing the police? While it has become clear that scrutiny of the third party certifiers is paramount, this thesis demonstrates that this is only one point of intervention, and a concerted effort from a host of actors along the entire chain of custody, including the endpoint--that of the consumer--will need to be implemented if this problem is ever to be truly quelled.
