Carolina Caught: Shrimping Industry Struggles | Carolina Stories - Episode 5

Carolina Stories: Carolina Caught, Part 5 examines the modern-day struggles in the shrimping industry, including issues with importing pond-raised shrimp, which have high amounts of antibiotics and steroids, and the impact that importing large quantities of shrimp has on the market, driving prices down.

Standards

• This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into how U.S. relationships with other countries have developed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  • 5.5.CX Contextualize the changes in rural communities in South Carolina within national and global industries.
• This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how a state measures development by analyzing economic, social, and demographic factors. This indicator also promotes inquiry into development trends. Equally important is inquiry into gender disparities.
  • HG.2.1.PR Identify regions of varying degrees of economic development, and explain the factors that influence the location and spatial distribution of these regions at the local and global scales using maps and geographic models and representations.