Farmed shrimp is one of the most consumed seafood products globally, yet welfare standards in shrimp aquaculture remain largely unregulated and poorly understood.
Shrimp aquaculture involves practices that likely cause substantial suffering including eyestalk ablation, extreme crowding, water quality stress, and poor slaughter methods. The scale is vast, with hundreds of billions of shrimp farmed annually. Evidence of crustacean sentience is growing and the precautionary principle demands reform.