Sustainable, “Plug-and-Play” Shrimp Farming Sets up Anywhere Food Engineering
Shrimp farming comes with complications from contamination to environmental impacts. Atarraya has create d an alternative method to farming shrimp through automated aquaculture. The company’s Shrimpbox aims to be a modular and scalable solution to traditional shrimp farming.
I love shrimp. However, the news lately has been somewhat off-putting with stories of contamination from heavy metals, bacteria, viruses, antibiotics and other environmental issues. As if that weren’t enough, one Google search for “shrimp farming problems” brought up the following from worldwildlife.org: “A steady stream of organic waste, chemicals and antibiotics from shrimp farms can pollute groundwater or coastal estuaries.”
Not exactly comforting words if you’re environmentally concerned and want to buy shrimp from responsible shrimp farms that practice good stewardship of our planet. Buying wild shrimp doesn’t help our overfished oceans either; think about the netting used to catch wild shrimp. Along with 1 lb. of shrimp, anywhere from 6 to 20 lbs. of other ocean wildlife are also trapped and die, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.