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Ten years after returning to Vietnam, Loc Tran, founder and CEO of ShrimpVet, is looking for ways to help farmers adopt more progressive and efficient practices in order to survive the current downturn in shrimp prices.
Vibrio parahaemolyuticus, which causes the disease. "Developing the diagnostic has been a complex process," Lightner said at the time, "but now that we’ve got that done, I’m just delighted that we have a clearly defined way to get it out to the world to help solve the problem." In the 1970s, Lightner put together a team of researchers at the University of Arizona that provided much of the basic knowledge on shrimp disease and health, which enabled shrimp aquaculture to grow into a global industry that now supplies more than half of all the shrimp consumed around the world.