article_snippet.sent: Experts in the US found the majority of the shrimp sold on supermarket shelves arrive there after starting life on vast prawn farms in south east Asia.
article_snippet.sent: Many prawns sold in the US also come from places such as Thailand and Indonesia.
article_snippet.sent: A medium-sized shrimp farm in South-East Asia can produced close to a million pounds of prawns every year, a 'powerful incentive for farmers to maximse production', the report notes.
article_snippet.sent: The vast majority of prawns eaten on these shores come from such farms in India, Indonesia and Thailand.
article_snippet.sent: There, prawns are 'farmed' in huge industrial tanks, or shallow, man-made ponds that can stretch for acres.
article_snippet.sent: A large number of the prawns available on supermarket started life in vast prawn farms in Thailand, India and Indonesia.
article_snippet.sent: India and Indonesia are farmed in huge industrial tanks, or in shallow ponds, like those pictured in Krabi, above .
article_snippet.sent: Marianne Cufone, an environmental solicitor and executive director at Recirculating Farms Coalition, explains how you can spot a farmed prawn from Marianne Cufone, an environmental solicitor and executive director at Recirculating Farms Coalition wild cousins. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Majority of supermarket prawns from Indian, Thai and Indonesian farms .