Aquaculture especially shrimp farming has significant contribution to the economy of Bangladesh. The southwest coastal area is more prominent for commercial shrimp farming due to its auspicious environment, higher economic returns, nutrition value and for employment opportunity. The present...

During 2003, we applied a set of 17th Sustainable Development Indicators to shrimp farms placed in a semitropical area of the Gulf of California. This set was useful to construct a Sustainability Index (SI) to evaluate their sustainable development rank between them. The set if indicators showed...

Environmental diagnosis of supra-littoral and semi-intensive shrimp farm systems (SCS) in the northwestern part of Mexico had been developed for a 10-years period (1993 to 2003). The activities in the construction, operation and abandonment phases were evaluated by an environmental impact...