His wife has had to take a job at a watermelon farm to help support their two children. “It is more stable than the shrimp farms,” said the farmer from Indonesia’s Central Java province.

His wife has had to take a job at a watermelon farm to help support their two children. “It is more stable than the shrimp farms,” said the farmer from Indonesia’s Central Java province. As big ...

Some 80% of those involved in processing shrimp are women, many of whom rise at 4 a.m. and return home at 6 p.m. Pregnant women and new mothers can stop one hour earlier, the report found.

Only about 2,000 of the 2 million shrimp farms in the major producing countries are certified by either the Aquaculture Stewardship Council or the Best Aquaculture Practices ecolabel, making it ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A new investigation focused on three of the world’s largest producers of shrimp released Monday claims that as big Western supermarkets make windfall profits, their aggressive ...