The best tasting shrimp comes from the Gulf of Mexico. You can keep your made in China shrimp.
Strangely enough, nobody ever argues from the point of view of quality. US Gulf shrimp and Atlantic shrimp (such as Mayport shrimp from North Florida) are much tastier than the farm raised Chinese stuff, and I think a market for quality could be built. Let the Chinese stuff go into frozen foods, fast food "shrimp," etc. Sell the good stuff for eating here by people who know what shrimp should taste like.
But that would require marketing and a little creativity, which no industry likes to engage in, especially if they can get the federal government to go out and do things for them instead.
You got that right! It's all that Mississipi mud. I lived in Hawaii and they had prawns there, they were huge but flavorless.
I live 20 minutes from the Gulf and up until a few years ago the price was ridiculus. Also a lot of it is a cash only business, so don't believe all of the woe is me hysteria going on.