Ecuador is facing as a country a severe drought that has caused the hydropower electricity plants to work at less capacity, and consequently the government has established turns for the service, what implies periods of several hours without energy.
Farming equipment like feeders and oxygenators, and of course processing plants and cold storage facilities run with electricity, so new costs created by the forced use of fuel generators could mean a problem for the fairly competitive prices that were found in Ecuador, one of the biggest exporters of shrimp in the world.