Shrimp to be star at Chennai seafood show

The shrimp will be the star attraction at the three-day India International Seafood Show, the largest seafood exhibition in Asia, to be held at Chennai from January 10. The shrimp makes up around a half of the country’s seafood exports in value terms.

In the recent years, the vannamei shrimp, farmed mostly in Andhra Pradesh, has leapfrogged to top of the export list and has earned good price too. This is at a time when major shrimp producers such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Vietnam are facing heavy fall in production and global prices are rising.