Shrimp farming in Bangladesh has expanded rapidly since the
1980s. The main species cultured is black tiger shrimp ( Penaeus
monodon), known as bagda in Bengali. At present, the area under tiger
shrimp production is 188,046 ha, of which around 5% is located in the
district of Cox's Bazar in the southeast of the country, and the remaining
95% in the districts of Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira in the southwest
(Belton et al., 2011)