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.

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.

An investigation focused on three of the world’s largest shrimp producers claims that as big Western supermarkets make ...

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 ...