ABSTRACT
Based on existing data concerning shrimp farming, this chapter delineates a theoretical integrated shrimp farming system. It discusses the economic feasibility of operating such a system relative to other fish farming systems. Pope et al. discussed the potential for using aquatic species for waste water treatment, and Lee et al. have shown that shrimp culture can be used as a waste treatment system. The chapter presents the results of an economic analysis, modeling two different culture management systems: the manured pond with supplemental feed and the conventionally fed pond. Labor requirements for shrimp farming vary, depending on the management strategies being used, and on other factors such as farm size. In addition to the economic benefits which have been hypothesized in the chapter for livestock-shrimp farming using partial analysis, the use of manure in shrimp ponds could also mitigate animal waste problems in feedlot cattle ranches, and convert unusable waste into highly valued animal protein.
