| Raising Shrimp | |
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| Directed by | Joe Cunningham |
| Written by | Ted Caplow Sarah Curry |
| Produced by | Ted Caplow |
| Starring | Ted Caplow Andy Danylchuk |
| Edited by | Ted Caplow Javier Mayol Sarah Curry Jo Cunningham |
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Running time | 51 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Raising Shrimp is a 2014 documentary by Fish Navy Films about farming shrimp sustainably.
Synopsis
editRaising Shrimp explores the last hope of a dying industry: fishermen and farmers raising North America’s most popular seafood are drowning beneath waves of cheap imports and environmental concerns… but one solution remains and that is farming shrimp sustainably.
America's most popular and iconic seafood is really a cheap foreign import. Raising Shrimp paints the economic and medical perils of an outsourced food supply, and follows Ted, an engineer, and Andy, an ecologist, on a quest for a better shrimp.
In Texas, they find fishermen pushed from riches to rags by imports. In Belize, they find shrimp farmers striving for a natural balance with jungles and lagoons, but again globalization takes its toll, and the best farm collapses.
But back home, pioneering farmers harness the power of bacteria to grow shrimp inside a darkened warehouse without any waste. Encouraged, Andy and Ted see that Raising Shrimp this way offers hope for all.
Cast
edit- Ted Caplow (narrator)
- Andy Danylchuk
Reception
editThe Raising Shrimp world premiere will be held March 29th at the DC Environmental Film Festival.
Marine Science Today reviewed the film[1] saying "Raising Shrimp not only serves to educate on where our food comes from, but can help consumers make smarter choices."
Carl Safina said of Raising Shrimp "It's a fearless exploration of where seafood comes from and how we can return production here to our own country."