re: #220 Cannadian Club Akbar

I just got done reading a book about shrimp, Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold.

One item the authors point out is that the the swamp draining and development in Florida basically gutted the wild shrimping industry there. The mangrove swamps were breeding and living habitat for some of the marketable species, and there was no longer enough organic matter washing down and spreading for them to feed on.

I’ve seen a few books on “wild” food sources that eventually get wiped out since their preferred environment for living/breeding conflicts with how man prefers it to be. The main other case being the Atlantic and Pacific salmon, who like streams and rivers in ways that man does not.