Estimates from Aquaculture Asia Pacific suggest Indonesia became the second-largest shrimp producer in the world in 2014.

Its vannamei production was up 31% 504,000 metric tons, according to statistics cited by Shrimp News International, making it second only to China, which produced 955,000t in 2014.

Ecuador's vannamei production leapt 19%, from 286,000 metric tons to 340,000t.

Vietnam too saw its production rising, from 267,615t to 328,000t. This was at the expense of black tiger, or monodon, harvest, which fell from 292,884t to 241,000t. Indonesia too sacrificed some monodon production, falling from 178,783t to 126,000t.

Thai production continues to flounder after the effects of early mortality syndrome, falling from 250,000t to 220,000t in 2014. This is less than India, which apparently remained stable at 300,000t harvest, as well as 45,000t of black tiger.

Overall, world vannamei production rose in 2014, from 2.7 million tons to 3.05m tons. No doubt a direct result of switching ponds to vannamei, black tiger production fell from a total 743,616t to 634, 800t.

See the full table here.