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.

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 ...

Workers harvest shrimps at a farm in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Farm worker Andika Yudha Agusta feed shrimps at a shrimp farm in Kebumen, ...

24, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Farm worker Andika Yudha Agusta feed shrimps at a shrimp farm in Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) Farm worker ...

Only about 1,000 of the 2 million shrimp farms in the major producing countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ecuador, Thailand and Bangladesh are certified by either the Aquaculture Stewardship ...

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 ...