Shrimp Species

Although Sea Minh hai can process several important commercial shrimp species available in Viet Nam such as Black Tiger shrimp (penaeus monodon), Vietnam white shrimp (Penaeus merguiensis), Pink shrimp (Metapenaeus ensis), Cat tiger... but the main species we actually process are Black Tiger and Vannamei (Litopenaeus vannamei, or also called earlier as Penaeus vannamei). The reason is scareness of other species which are basically natural caught. Mekong Delta is rich in natural fishery resources and this is described in Trinh Hoai Duc's Gia Định Thành Thông Chí in early of 19th Century (which was translated to the French as Gia Dinh Thung Chi, or Histoire et Description de la basse Cochinchine by G. Aubaret and published in 1853 in Paris by the Imprimerie Impériale (Imperial Publisher)): Reddish shrimp (white species) in the sea, [caught] and dried and supplied to the trading boats. Only in Vinh Thanh and Ha Tien provinces it's abundently available, each year can be harvested up to 100,000 cân*. There's a small shrimp species just about the size of the tip of the chopstick, (a small shrimp species), salted and ground to an attractive smell and tastely pink powder ([133][133]). The lobster, with stripes and spiny shell, [21a] as big as human fists, the meat serves as food while its shell serves as decorative object. The freshwater giant prawn, with blue round shell with 4-5 tac** length with two long giant chelepeds, sweat meat that in northern provinces we cannot have. There is also a small shrimp called white shrimp, cat tiger shrimp that are also tasty food.