Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food production sector, with cultured shrimp and prawn growing at an annual rate of 16.8% between 1984 and 1995 (Subasinghe et al. 1998). Shrimp culture has become a commercially important industry in many parts of the world. Shrimp production in the Western and Eastern hemisphere comprised about 29% and 71% of the world production, respectively.