Commodities Focus
El Niño and agriculture: Shrimp markets face uncertainty over crop quality, feed prices
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The ongoing El Niño is reshaping global seafood markets by warming Pacific waters and disrupting rainfall, currents, and nutrient flows. Shrimp producers face disease risks, salinity fluctuations, flooding, drought, and elevated feed costs, which pressure output and margins. In Peru, warmer seas can push anchovy stocks deeper or farther offshore, curbing catches and fishmeal production. Reduced…