Hawaii is the World’s Shrimp Breeding Capital

Posted on Feb 3, 2015 in Aquaculture

The world’s largest supplier of SPF shrimp broodstock, Shrimp Improvement Systems,  has been located at NELHA since 2012. Read more on the history of SPF shrimp and the role played by NELHA from this Hawaii Business Magazine article by Jim Wyban. A companion to this article is a summary of a few of the shrimp companies in Hawaii.

An interview by Think Tech Hawaii is also available.

Shrimp is a top Hawaii export (see this Pacific Business News article).