Stock Photo - Wild Shrimp fry, these are collect from the sea shore in Cox’s Bazar beach April 1, 2007 Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh A very large wastage is often happened of fry of both penaeid shrimps and other commercially important species including fish The price of shrimp fry is much lower in the vicinity of Cox´s Bazar being only Tk 40–100 per thousand for fry of a similar size Shrimp farming in Bangladesh relies entirely on the supply of wild fry for stocking purposes It has been estimated that 1–3 billion fry of P monodon were harvested in 1985 The main collection canters are Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat and Cox´s Bazar Japan currently the main market for Bangladeshi shrimps There are an increasing source of foreign currency through exports to the USA, Europe and particularly Japan It has created employment opportunities for thousands of people both in shrimp fishery culture and capture sector itself as well as in the backward wild shrimp fry fishing and hatcheries, and forward linkage frozen shrimp industries