The plant eventually sold around 6,019 tonnes of shrimp.

About 75 of farmed shrimp is produced in Asia, in particular in China and Thailand.

But on the other hand, if you start measuring, how much would it actually cost to restore the land of the shrimp farm back to productive use?

The total global production of farmed shrimp reached more than 1.6 million tonnes in 2003, representing a value of nearly 9 billion U.S. dollars.

I was interested in what was going on in the bag, the bag on the toy store shelf where those shrimp sat in suspended animation indefinitely.

The next time you dine on sushi or sashimi, or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail, whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean think of the real cost.

And living amongst the tangle of tube worms is an entire community of animals shrimp, fish, lobsters, crab, clams and swarms of arthropods that are playing that dangerous game between over here is scalding hot and freezing cold.

For now, it may only be black humor (e.g., the New Orleans waiter who asks diners whether they want their shrimp leaded or unleaded).