1.   However public protests are also gathering momentum as people realize that shrimp farming seems to be a recipe for disaster.

2.   Ecologically and socially sustainable shrimp farming exists in many countries.

3.   In India, shrimp farming has been supported by the World Bank, the FAO and the Asian Development Bank as a means of generating foreign exchange.

4.   Increasingly, shrimp farming is run by multinational companies.

5.   Probably the most picked-on project that state received money for is shrimp farming.

6.   Shrimp farming has produced quick profits in Thailand, but polluted thousands of acres of wetlands.

7.   Then it was real estate, petrochemicals, trading and retail stores, and shrimp farming.

8.   They have introduced shrimp farming to balance out the times during El Nino when some types of fish become scarce.

9.   Today the local economy is supported by coconut and mango plantations, shrimp farming, and fishing.

10.   Today, the United Nations Environment Program calculates that half have been lost, and some estimates blame shrimp farming for one-fourth of this destruction.