“…The poor assimilation of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) by shrimp can be compensated by the presence of red seaweed Gracilaria , which can turn wastes into biomass, significantly improving water quality in traditional systems (Huo, Xu, Wang, Zhang, Zhang, Wu, Chen & He ; Marinho‐Soriano, Azevedo, Trigueiro, Pereira & Carneiro ; Huo, Wu, Chai, Xu, Han, Dong & He ; Robledo, Navaro‐Angulo, Lozano & Freile‐Pelegrin ) and zero‐exchange systems (Sánchez‐Romero, Miranda‐Baeza, López‐Elías, Martínez‐Córdova, Tejeda‐Mansir & Márquez‐Ríos ; Brito, Arantes, Magnotti, Derner, Pchara, Olivera & Vinatea ). Seaweed may also improve shrimp growth and yield in semi‐intensive (Gamboa‐Delgado, Peña‐Rodríguez, Ricque‐Marie & Cruz‐Suárez ; Portillo‐Clark, Casillas‐Hernández, Servín‐Villegas & Magallón‐Barajas ) and intensive systems (Brito, Arantes et al .…”