What is the wholesale price paid to a shrimp farmer per unit of shrimp?

28 December 2013 0 9K Report

I am looking for a peer-reviewed study or two that reports how much a shrimp farmer gets paid for their shrimp per pound or similar. Preferably in Ecuador but anywhere will do.

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