Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Barriers to Trade and Its Impact on the Environment : The Case of Shrimp Farming in Bangladesh

Contents: 1. Introduction: i. WTO and SPS agreements. ii. The research problem. 2. The shrimp industry and its regulations: i. International regulations applicable regulations applicable for the shrimp industry. ii. Sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures. iii. HACCP method of food safety monitoring. iv. HACCP in Bangladesh. 3. Research method. 4. Shrimp farms in Bangladesh: i. Socio-economic profile of shrimp farmers. ii. Shrimp farming in practice. iii. Multi-species production. iv. Cost of production. v. Source of shrimp fry. vi. Shrimp-cum-paddy farming. vii. Changes in land use after shrimp. viii. Income from shrimp farming. ix. Feed and medicine used. x. Equipment of a shrimp farm. xi. The shrimp they sell. xii. Shrimp farms and environmental awareness. 5. The processing firms: i. Environmental risks. 6. Non-shrimp farmers in shrimp areas: i. A comparative analysis of opinions. 7. The regulations on exports: i. Simulating a coping strategy for the shrimp industry. 8. Concluding observations.