Environmental and Socioeconomic Impacts of Shrimp Farming in the Philippines: A Critical Analysis Using PRISMA

Shrimp aquaculture is under pressure to increase its production meet the growing demand for food from a population. In Philippines, has experienced shift milkfish prawn, with attractive marketable price. This intensification led negative and positive impacts, which have raised range of environmental socioeconomic problems. paper reviews challenges that shrimp industry faces using Preferred Reporting Items Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method. We examine gaps changes are required revitalize industry. assess impacts culture on environment, e.g., farm management, marine pollution, disease outbreaks, social, economic, climate change impacts. The presence viral diseases, such as White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV), Monodon Baculovirus (MBV), Infectious Hypodermal Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHHNV), Hepatopancreatic Parvovirus (HPV), Yellow Head (YHV), caused approximate losses in 40,080 mt 1997, 51,000 2014. Recommended strategies policy considered improvement aquaculture, including adoption good practices, proper monitoring, sustainable practices at level, priorities cooperation among concerned government agencies local governments, well involvement state universities colleges, better management practices.