The Department of Fisheries (DOF) is responsible for the control and monitoring of distribution and consumption of fisheries products. Since production and capture of marine shrimp is an important economic fishery, production control and monitoring is required to ensure that high quality and safe shrimp of are produced. Quality shrimp guidelines for the sustainable shrimp culture industry have been developed from an existing processing standard of DOF, harvest and transportation of CODEX, and Code of Conduct (CoC) Guideline. In addition, shrimp farm guideline has developed from CODEX, and CoC of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

DOF has set up the Code of Conduct for upstream shrimp production (marine shrimp hatchery and farm guideline). This guideline is divided into two sections for marine shrimp hatchery & nursery, and for marine shrimp farm. Each guideline consists of 11 items which are checked and includes site selection, farm management, shrimp stock density, feed, shrimp health, therapeutic agent & chemicals, effluent and sediment, harvest and transportation, social responsibilities, farm grouping and data collection.

DOF certifies marine shrimp feed by registration of aquatic animal feed. Licenses shall be issued for aquatic feed production and import. Random checking at shrimp feed factory is carried out to ensure the feed quality.

Marine products from upstream processes will be delivered to the processing plant for further processing. A certification will be issued to a processing plant that certifies its production qualities meet the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) standard. Before the processing plant receives this certification, their product is randomly checked and analysed for product quality. If the product is for export, a guideline for export shrimp product will be applied.

There are three types of export shrimp products that require inspection i.e. frozen raw shrimp, frozen cooked shrimp, and frozen value added shrimp product.

As previously described DOF uses the CoC as a guideline for certifying the whole shrimp production line, from farm to table, to create a sustainable shrimp culture industry in Thailand. Furthermore, DOF has established quality shrimp guidelines that allow producing safe products for consumers without therapeutic agents and chemical residue and impacts to the environment.