Hugues Lemonnier explores sustainable tropical shrimp farming

Hugues Lemonnier has released a new study titled ‘Tropical Shrimp Farming – Towards More Sustainability,’ published by Éditions Quæ. The work addresses the environmental, sanitary, and societal challenges facing the global shrimp industry, which has seen an annual growth rate of approximately 5% between 2015 and 2026.

Lemonnier, a scientist who spent 25 years researching the relationship between shrimp farming and the environment in New Caledonia, now leads a coastal laboratory at Ifremer. His research utilizes New Caledonia as a primary case study to analyze the industry's interaction with coastal ecosystems. To provide a global perspective, the study also incorporates findings from Indonesia and Vietnam, examining how production models from the 1980s can evolve to meet modern constraints, such as animal diseases and environmental fragility.