Shrimp Farming and the Environment - Library

producers and producer groups that would help disseminate the more specific operational findings ofthe case studies.Pilot projects in sustainable shrimp culture developmentAs noted repeatedly in this document, the key to sustainable shrimp farming is effective and informedplanning, coupled with powerful incentives or constraints to site, design, construct, and operate farmsin particular ways. One increasingly discussed incentive is environmental quality certification linked tolabeling initiatives—associated, it is hoped, with a market premium. One case study should explore theimplications of certification for shrimp aquaculture. A related study could explore the use of BMPbasedscreens for investors and institutional purchasers, as a way to send signals to producers from bothends of the market.It might be interesting to test the feasibility of linking a retail labeling scheme to one or more groups ofsmall-scale shrimp producers in a developing country who are all operating within some planningframework, set of best practices, or agreed-upon code of practices. If this practice worked, it might thenbe extended to other groups.76