Shrimp Farming

Today in class we had a guest speaker, Yu Huang, who is getting her Ph.D. in Anthropology. Yu was born in China and is now doing research on peasant entereimpries in farming shrimp in Southeast China. I had never heard of shrimp farming or of anything thing of that nature before this class period and I was fascinated by the politics that are involved in the process. Shrimp farming is a large industry and it is very completive in every sense and way- who can grow the most shrimp, which can sell the most shrimp, and even gambling can be involved to make the stakes higher. I have never thought of shrimp farming or even heard of it before she came to our class but by her coming to our class I was able to learn something new.