Shrimp Insights launches the world’s first public Farm-Gate Price Portal, offering free access to shrimp farm-gate prices from 🇪🇨 Ecuador, 🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, and 🇻🇳 Vietnam. Powered by Kampi, Aqua Exchange, JALA, and Tomota, the portal brings unprecedented transparency to global shrimp markets.
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The Shrimp Cast was an idea started by Gabriel Luna and executed in partnership with Willem van der Pijl and Angel Rubio. Entertainingly, the three industry experts, discuss the most urgent and relevant topics that the shrimp industry is confronted with. They dive into trade data, discuss labor issues, and discuss US inventories. Sign up for the Shrimp Cast here.
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The only publicly available source with farm gate prices from most of the relevant origins. We have started with Ecuador, India and Indonesia and will expand to other countries in due time.
Shrimp Insights is a shrimp industry publication and consultancy company managed by Willem van der Pijl. Willem has been engaged in the shrimp industry for about 12 years. As an outsider to the industry, he has been lucky to work and travel around the world to visit hatcheries, feed mills, shrimp farms, and processing plants. He has developed a strong helicopter view of the industry and in-depth insights into most of the shrimp-producing countries around the world. Besides his understanding of the industry, Willem probably has the most extensive network that spans all geographies and all levels of the shrimp industry's value chain.
Thanks to the support of a group of sponsors, most of Shrimp Insights' publications (blogs, bytes, and report series) are open-access. Shrimp Insights also offers detailed data sets of the companies driving the shrimp industry in different countries worldwide and at different levels of the value chain and provides a range of consultancy services. Are you interested in learning more?
The Shrimp Insights Blogs and Bytes are free publications which if you are on my mailing list are delivered to your inbox. Blogs are in-depth reports on specific topics that are relevant to the industry. Bytes are quick trade data updates of the major shrimp-producing and consuming nations. My publications never get technical. I'm not technical myself. The publications are therefore easy to read and digest but at the same time support you quickly enhance your understanding of the global shrimp industry.
A group of around twenty shrimp industry leaders sponsors Shrimp Insights' publications. Shrimp Bytes and Blogs are sponsored for the whole year by the same group of eight to ten sponsors. Reports are sponsored on a per-report basis by a group of around ten sponsors. Since this year, we have also offered personalized, company-branded advertorials to be sent to our mailing list. Thanks to our sponsors all blogs, bytes and reports are open access and not beyond a paywall. Do you want to sponsor us this year?
The cost of a sponsorship for the Shrimp Blog and Bytes is €4.000 annually. This includes logo profiling and name tagging in both types of publications, and in the blog sponsors will also have a banner promoting their company. The cost of an personalized advertorial is €2.500. For more details, check the sponsor guide below!
While the Shrimp Blogs offer longer reads on specific topics and the Shrimp Bytes cover trade statistics in an easy-to-digest manner, the Shrimp Insights Report Series offers unique, unparalleled deep dives into particular parts of the shrimp value chain and the companies that drive it. Reports have been published about the L. vannamei broodstock market, the feed manufacturing landscape, and the Indian shrimp industry. More reports about the EU importer landscape and the Ecuador shrimp industry will follow.
Shrimp Insights offers various consultancy services, including long-term strategic and short-term ad hoc engagements. Assignments range from matchmaking to project and stakeholder management to product and business development to brainstorming sessions, due diligence, or deal flow support. Willem van der Pijl does not work alone. He works with a network of associates with specific industry knowledge. Shrimp Insights guarantees the quality of the work Willem and his associate network deliver.
David is a seasoned hatchery and grow-out expert and consultant. Today, he works as a consultant within the hatchery and genetics segment of the shrimp supply chain and advocates for the round-tank shrimp farming model worldwide. He is a great technical expert with a great network in the industry.
Roxanne served as senior director for sustainability at Thai Union and chief sustainability officer at Xpertsea. As an independent consultant, she works on assignments related to carbon reduction in the shrimp supply chain and supports the Global Shrimp Forum with program development.
Fang worked for CAPPMA, MSC, WWF, and most recently, ASC. He thoroughly understands the Chinese shrimp production and market and has an outstanding senior executive network. He delivers high-quality insights and connections to China's shrimp industry and wider aquaculture sector.
Gabriel is a seasoned shrimp industry leader from Ecuador with over 20 years of experience in the global seafood industry, specializing in sourcing premium Ecuadorian and Mexican shrimp and fostering international partnerships. As the founder of Glunashrimp, spearheads Quality Assurance, market advisory services, and subscription-based insights tailored to Ecuadorian shrimp production. As a consultant, he helps people interpret Ecuador's production and trade statistics.
Hans Boon worked for Provimi for almost 10 years. After that, with his own company, he consulted major feed and feed ingredient companies. Hans is an excellent formulator and a seasoned consultant. He delivers quality insights into shrimp feed manufacturing.
Willem van der Pijl is a seasoned consultant in the shrimp industry. He works on short—and long-term consultancy assignments for a range of clients, including Klaas Puul, Aldi Sud, de Heus, eFishery, Dalan Bio, Molofeed, Addiseo, Grobest, Skretting, Identigen, Inve Aquaculture, Platinum Equity, Sail Ventures, the Global Shrimp Council, the Global Shrimp Forum, GalaxEye, International Finance Corporation, Aquaculture Stewardship Council, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Solidaridad Network, and many more.
Willem has been an invaluable contributor to the GSC, bringing structure, enthusiasm, and a collaborative spirit to our initiatives. He has steadfastly supported the GSC, and his multicultural expertise has been instrumental in helping us navigate diverse perspectives and drive progress. (David Castro, Co-Founder Global Shrimp Council)
Working with David and Gabriel (co-founders and chairs) to ensure smooth communications and engagement with a group of 40+ members, mostly shrimp producers from Asia and Latin America. Developing proposals that reflect different opinions in the board and get support from a majority of GSC members.
Willem is a very experienced partner with a great knowledge and network within our industry and beyond, and after all a nice and reliable companion. (Jan Bootsman - commercial director Klaas Puul)
Klaas Puul is the Dutch importer and processor supplying Albert Heijn supermarkets (Ahold Delhaize) with most of its tropical shrimp. Albert Heijn wants to have the most sustainable shrimp in the Netherlands. I helped develop a proposition and a consortium with partners such as Cofimar, Skretting, Protix, and Veramaris to produce and supply this shrimp from South America.
Willem's knowledge of the industry and ability to gather its leaders are unparalleled. Through the insides he provides, he has gained the respect of many of the industry's leaders. These engagements have made GSF the leading global top executive venue in the shrimp industry (Jorgen J. Lund, Co-founder and Board Member GSF)
I am a co-founder, board member, and managing director of the Global Shrimp Forum (GSF). GSF combines my passion for hospitality and driving change in the shrimp industry. It's an honor to host the leadership of the shrimp industry every year.
Willem delivered a fantastic, state-of-the art overview into the extent to which non-ablation is practiced in shrimp broodstock across shrimp production countries. This study has been a key building block determining the direction for requirements on ablation in the ASC Farm standard. (Esther Luiten, Global Director Program Development ASC)
In this project, David Kawahigashi and I studied the rate of use of eyestalk ablation as a practice in hatcheries in Asia and Latin America. We then looked at the perceived consequences of not using eyestalk ablation in each region and, based on that, provided recommendations about handling this topic in ASC's shrimp farm standard.
Partnering with Willem was truly instrumental in entering the market and solving some use cases. Willem is also a great human being and strikes the right balance between optimistic & critical feedback. (Suyash Singh - co-founder and CEO GalaxEye)
GalaxEye is an Indian space tech start-up that has developed a satellite-based shrimp production tracking product. With its Track product, the company monitors all shrimp ponds in India, knows the days of culture, and estimates the size of shrimp in the ponds—a true value to the industry. I have supported the team in developing use cases and making the right connections in the industry.
Willem's knowledge and understanding of and network in the Indian shrimp industry is unparalleled. Besides, he is a very honest advisor. (Wendy Norden - director of science and global strategy Monterey Bay Aquarium)
Monterey Bay Aquarium is investing in ongoing improvement efforts to address key barriers to sustainable shrimp production in India through the application of its Partnership Assurance Model (PDF) and Verification Platform. The aim is to increase availability of Seafood Watch yellow and green rated shrimp from India.
