The local shrimp industry, despite disease and marketing problems currently plaguing it, is not dead as some doomsayers think. Solutions are earnestly being worked out to reinvigorate the industry, it was reported during the Second International Conference on the Culture of Penaeid Prawns and Shrimps held recently the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) here.

Fernandez, R. (1996, June 23). Int's confab tackles problems of RP shrimp industry. The Philippine Star, p. 23.