Bangladesh exports shrimp to the world, harvesting an estimated 20,000 tonnes a year, half of it bound for Europe and a quarter for American supermarkets and restaurants. The industry employs roughly 750,000 people and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars annually for a country that badly needs the revenue. This Al Jazeera 101 East episode looks at what that money costs the people producing it, tracing allegations of bonded labour, gang activity, and land seized from small farmers to make way for shrimp ponds. A recent report cited in the film calls the abuse systematic, tying it to labour laws written to favor growth over worker protections. Reporters put the government's claim that the industry benefits the country to the people actually working it, asking who profits and who absorbs the risk. The episode stays close to the shrimp supply chain itself, from ponds and processing sheds to the export contracts that set the prices everyone downstream has to live with.