Cooking & EatingLarge shrimps in the Dutch supermarket usually come fromshrimp mothers with an eye cut off. Due to the mutilation, they would producemore eggs, as can be seen tonight in the TV broadcast of Inspection Serviceof Value.
According to emeritus professor of animal physiology Gert Flik, called the’shrimp professor’ in the broadcast, it is a normal practice in the world ofshrimp farming. “Hormones are made in the shrimp’s eye stem that inhibitnormal processes. So if you remove that brake, the shrimp grow faster and theegg production in females is increased.”
According to Flik, this has been happening since the 1970s, when shrimp werefarmed on a large scale. ,,If the growers have the facilities in house to doit properly, they will certainly do that. Millions of tons are being grown,that amount can no longer be caught.”
Many Dutch fish sellers and shrimp importers are not aware of this method,according to questions from the program. They don’t know what’s going on inshrimp farms, especially in the Far East. Most of the consumer shrimps onDutch shelves come from there.
Quote >>> It only hurts a little bit for a day>> Thai shrimp farmer
Disoriented and confused
In Thailand, the makers of Inspection Service of Value guest of a shrimpfarmer who shows how one of the eyes of a female shrimp is cut off. “If we cutoff the eye, they can reproduce every week. If we don’t, it will take longerthan two weeks.” He is laconic about the burden that the shrimps have: “Itonly hurts a little bit for a day.”
Anne Hilhorst of Lekker Dier sees it differently. “They swim arounddisoriented and confused. In this way, they are limited in their long-termdevelopment. You make a shrimp that will lay eggs much earlier and muchyounger and that is exactly what the breeder wants.”
The broadcast of Inspection Service of Value : Thursday 6 October at 20.25on NPO 3.
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