Shrimp processors in the United States each year operate via a staggered schedule of harvest runs that usually encompass about two to four months per run staggered between two to three month intervals. They typically use aerobic biotreatment for their wastewater management which yields no coproducts. This study considered a scenario where intermittent use of an anaerobic digester to produce methane (via biogas) during treatment of the wastewater was evaluated as if the digester was restarted multiple times per year. The overall study goal was to determine if an anaerobic digester could meet treatment goals (set at 60% removal of the chemical oxygen demand or COD) while producing a biogas containing >60% CH4 (v/v). The results indicated that nitrogen amending coupled with adding a microbial seed collected at the digester from a local municipal wastewater treatment plant provides good performance in terms of both biogas production and COD removal. Digestion of the shrimp processing wastewater yielded high levels of methane in the biogas at over 70% (v/v). About 3.5 ft(3) CH4 per pound of input COD was produced in the nutrient amended and seeded digester system. Anaerobic digestion can produce other valuable products other than biogas such as volatile organic acids (VOAs), including acetic, proprionic, and lactic acids. Approximately 2 g/L of VOAs could be produced via a 10 day hydraulic residence time using a similar system that was pretreated via conditions reported by others to enhance the production of VOAs, but the level of VOA production obtained was not considered economically attractive. An assessment of the economics of a centralized digestion system that could service multiple processors indicated that the centralized unit would produce a slightly higher return on investment than that typically observed with digestion systems at animal raising and food processing facilities.