Julio Jose and Manuel Andres are immersed waist-deep in 75-degree water in a 100-ton poly tank. Armed with large mesh dip nets, they begin their weekly task of shrimp wrangling. Even though the shrimp ...

A white wooden sign with hand-painted, sky blue letters strangely proclaims: “Fresh Shrimp For Sale, Sat 9-12.” Drivers slow down or back up to see if perhaps their eyes have deceived them. Others ...

Every morning, Rick Clymer walks into his barn and tends a growing crop. He patiently peers into 13 Walmart 16’ swimming pools to ensure feed, health, and water temperatures are at optimal levels, ...

WESTBY, Wis. — America’s Dairyland might seem an unlikely place for growing some of the country’s favorite seafood. Wisconsin’s first indoor shrimp farm is in the heart of the Kickapoo Valley, where ...

PIERZ — Now there's ocean water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. It’s made from city of Pierz tap water that’s been filtered, heated and had the Instant Ocean brand of sea salt added to it. The idea is to ...

Ashtyn Chen dips his net into a tank of water and pulls up a dozen or so squirming shrimp. Chen, the CEO of the Ocean's Friend Aquaculture, isn't working in Louisiana or Texas, but in a ...

Meet Minnesota's shrimp farming industry: Chad Axley. Commercial aquaculture barely registers in Minnesota, and shrimp farming would seem impossible. But thanks to an indoor aquaculture system — an up ...

A thousand miles from any ocean, a flotilla of shrimp grow big and tasty, ready to be popped into the mouths of Minnesotans. Kevin Smude and his business partner Joel Fischer, each veterans of two ...

PIERZ – Kevin Smude is already being jokingly compared to Forrest Gump. After a pair of deployments to Iraq, the 13-year Army National Guard veteran is in the process of starting his own shrimp ...

Northcentral Indiana isn’t known for its abundance of fresh seafood. So, understandably, it’s a bit of an anomaly to learn a new shrimp farm has recently opened in Osceola. SKR Saltwater Farms located ...

Americans are eating more shrimp than any other seafood, according to a study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That prompted Gilbert Schrock of New Paris to create a shrimp ...

A new shrimp farm in a Keokuk County town is making a splash in the area. Iowa Shrimp Farms in Sigourney will start raising hundreds of thousands of shrimp next month. There are already several of the ...