CLIMATE SMART SHRIMP

Certified or rated to an Shrimp aquaculture has historically been Sustainable internationally recognized one of the primary drivers of blue carbon Production standard or in an Aquaculture ecosystem destruction globally. This project Improvement Program reverses that paradigm by coupling responsible intensification of shrimp farming with restoration to provide biodiversity and community climate Restore coastal Produced with adaptation benefits. This project will leverage blue carbon electricity the aquaculture sector to reduce environmental Restore Clean ecosystems - such generated degradation and restore ecosystems in ways Ecosystems Energy as, mangroves, salt from a clean that can access investment capital and scale marsh or sea grass energy source restoration.

Conservation International will work with farmers, supply chain companies, governments, investors, communities, and other stakeholders to:

• Restore blue carbon ecosystems; • Decrease the environmental impacts of shrimp farms; Conserve marine Employ best • Enhance wellbeing and livelihoods in & terrestrial practices Deforestation Clean farming communities; ecosystems to avoid Free Water • Increase productivity, profitability, and adjacent to water quality resilience on shrimp farms; and the farm impacts • Catalyze replicable opportunities for investors.

This green-gray infrastructure approach draws Finance conservation upon thousands of years of engineering Community monitoring programs with achievements, recent improvements in Benefits socio-economic benefits aquaculture science and management, and to local communities novel approaches to stakeholder engagement to innovate a new generation of climate resilient food production. CENTER FOR OCEANS CURRENT CONDITION “GRAY” ALTERNATIVE GREEN-GRAY SOLUTION

Extensive (low yield) Intensive (high yield) Intensive (high yield) Shrimp Ponds Shrimp Ponds Shrimp Ponds Separate channels Restored Mangroves Single channel to and from ponds Wetland Treatment of Pond Effluent to and from ponds Dielsel pump to Treatment Basin Pump powered with deliver water renewable energy Aerators to ponds

Coastal Protection from Storms and Sea Level Rise

Poor Water Quality Good Water Quality Good Water Quality No Habitat No Habitat Good Habitat No Biodiversity Low Biodiversity Good Biodiversity

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For more information about AQUACULTURE projects at For more information about GREEN-GRAY infrastructure Conservation International please contact: projects at Conservation International please contact: Aquaculture Innovation Fellow, Dane Klinger, PhD Green-Gray Infrastructure Fellow, Emily Corwin, M.S., P.E. [email protected] [email protected]