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In this mail, let's look at the Sea foods industry or more specifically the Shrimps Industry.

There are a few Shrimps industry based listed stocks like Avanti Feeds, APEX Frozen Foods, etc. After a lull of 2-3 years, they seem to be making a comeback.

 

Below, we have shared our notes about the industry. Hope you find them useful for your own investments or to add the stocks to your watch list:

 

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Sea food and Shrimps industry

Classification of Sea food -

  • Capture - Comprises aquatic species taken from natural water bodies (Sea, lakes, ponds etc.)
  • Aquaculture - Comprises species cultivated in aquaculture farms

What are Shrimps?

  • Invertebrate marine animal with an elongated body belonging to largest class of crustaceans
  • Rich source of iron, protein, selenium, antioxidants, phosphorus, magnesium and vitamin B12
  • Found in freshwater lakes and streams, and deep and shallow waters

Types of Shrimps

  • White shrimp/Litopenaeus Vannamei/Penaeus Vannamei
  • Pink Shrimp
  • Brown Shrimp
  • Rock Shrimp
  • Royal Red Shrimp
  • Tiger Shrimp

Difference between Shrimp and Prawn

In UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the word “prawn” refers to both shrimp and prawns

Processes Involved in Shrimps Industry -

  • Procurement of culture raw male & female shrimps
  • Hatchery
    • adult male & female shrimps are kept together for mating and collection of unhatched eggs
    • treat the egg to convert to Nauplii and place the Nauplii in larval tanks
  • Farming of young shrimps to adult shrimps
    • In Farming Ponds, larvae shrimp/seeds grow to raw shrimps
    • Shrimps are fed quality formulated feed
  • Processing - Raw shrimps are processed and selected into different categories, such as Peeled, deveined, headon, headless
  • Storing of processed shrimps in cold storage till dispatched

Business categories in the shrimps industry -

  • Shrimp seed sale - sale of Shrimp Larvae/seeds
  • Feed sale - shrimp feed prepared by using ingredients like, soya bean meal, wheat flour, fish meal, etc
  • Sale of processed shrimps
    • raw fresh
    • frozen
    • Value added products, like - ready to eat, ready to cook, heat and serve, etc

Global Shrimps industry -

  • Global shrimp market reached a value of US$ 62.8 billion in 2021
  • Market is projected to reach US$ 84.2 billion by 2027
  • Consumption demand is expected to grow by 4-5%
  • US is a major market for consumption of Shrimps

Indian Shrimps industry -

  • It reached a value of US$ 6.5 Billion in 2021
  • IMARC Group expects the market to reach US$ 12.7 Billion by 2027

Major Shrimp producing Indian states -

  • Andhra Pradesh leads the space and accounted for 76% of total volume production in FY 21
  • Vannamei accounted for 96% of the total production

Indian Shrimps export -

  • India is largest exporter of shrimps in the world and China is 2nd biggest importer of seafood from India of which 46% are frozen shrimps
  • India is a small player in value added products (VAP) export market and accounts for less than 1% of global trade
  • China, Thailand major exporters of VAP
  • Frozen shrimp exports constitute almost 74.31 % of the value of India’s total seafood exports

 

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Disclaimer: This is not a recommendation to buy/sell any of the stocks mentioned above. I have personal investment in Avanti Feeds.

 

Best Regards,

Ekansh Mittal
Research Analyst
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