(Shr)Impact

Shrimps helped

(in Expectation each year)

5,700,000,000

Between 4,000,000,000 - 8,000,000,000

Shrimps helped per $ per year

(overall Cost-Effectiveness per $)

1,400

Between 1,000 - 2,000

How did we arrive at these numbers? See the data here.

Shrimps helped per annum

Vietnam ~2,180,000,000

Honduras ~1,090,000,000

India ~630,000,000*

Indonesia ~570,000,000

Ecuador ~480,000,000

Sri Lanka ~440,000,000

Thailand ~180,000,000

Venezuela ~140,000,000

Nigeria ~72,000,000

* SSFI impact to be added after our Pilot phase

Our work with retailers

We collaborate with retailers to help them integrate shrimp welfare into their policies, leading to the adoption of welfare standards that include shrimps. We're currently quantifying how many shrimps benefit from these policies due to our work. Until this is complete, we don't include this impact in our count of shrimps helped.

Tesco (UK)
Marks & Spencer (UK)
Sainsbury’s (UK)
Waitrose / John Lewis Partnership (UK)
Ocado (UK)
Albert Heijn (Netherlands)
Jumbo (Netherlands)
Co-op (UK)
Morrisons (UK)
Iceland (UK)
Les Mousquetaires (France)

FAQs

Our work focuses mainly on partnerships with stakeholders who commit to use electrical stunning equipment. Our calculations take into account the number of shrimps that will benefit from these commitments.
The commitments have been signed, and the stunners are on their way to the farms. Therefore, we expect a positive impact on the number of shrimps announced.
However, it does not reflect the number of shrimps helped so far.
Currently, we don’t assess the extent of impact. The count of shrimps helped is not based on the level of help provided. For example, if two shrimps, one originally destined for slaughter by asphyxiation and the other for slaughter in ice slurry, are both instead electrically stunned after our intervention, we count them both as equally helped. However, there may be a significant difference in welfare improvement between the two. To address this and enhance precision, we are developing a Welfare Index.
SSFI is a platform and community for like-minded shrimp farmers. It provides a space for knowledge sharing and collaboration. It also offers services such as water quality checks, farm visits by technicians, and online consultations through a WhatsApp-based system. We are currently conducting exploratory work on this project, which is still in its early stages. Learn more here.
We intend to publish a more detailed version of our figures in the future. Numbers of shrimps helped to date will be added, as well as impact numbers for Sustainable Shrimp Farming in India, which are not currently included in our calculations. We would also like to review our impact numbers and refine them using the results of the Welfare Index.