Organic Shrimp?

[NashVegas]

Saw this in the supermarket today. Farm-raised.

Isn't this taking things a bit too far?

[Warpy]

1. Good luck on raising them free of PCBs and ag runoff

but if they're seriously trying organic aquaculture, good luck to them.

[NashVegas]

6. My Thought Exactly

I just don't see anyway pollution of some sort can be avoided.

[babylonsister]

2. There are lots of farms 'raising' lots of fish, shrimp, etc. I

probably eat it, even living in TX.

I know I pass one lots in Indonesia; you can tell by the smell. x(

[Stinky The Clown]

3. The only place here in MD where I can find real Gulf Shrimp ......

.... is in a Sysco outlet. Sysco is a large restaurant supplier, nationwide, and based in Texas. They have a retail/outlet store about 20 minutes from me. They sell lots of different stuff there. I can get real Gulf shrimp there, labeled as wild caught, Product of USA, and packed in Tejas.

Everything in our soopermarkets is southeast Asian - Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam, mostly. And there is a huge difference that is very noticeable in some dishes and not so much in other dishes.

Funny thing ...... the Asian stuff has very pretty looking packaging and is IQF. The Tejas stuff is packed in 5 lb bricks. But if one partially thaws the Tejas bricks, removes the shrimp needed, and then re-freezes the rest (which never really thaws) it allows you to use just part of the brick.

The Gulf shrimp has a nice, sweet taste. The Asian stuff tastes muddy.

[NMDemDist2]

4. one of my best seafood experiences, going down to Galveston

and buying the shrimp off the boats


YUMMM

[babylonsister]

5. Yes, you can get some really good, really fresh shrimp

around here, one of the (few) bennies to living here. Wah! Now I want some!:)

[mike_c]

7. most of the commercially marketed shrimp is farm raised tiger shrimp...

...Penaeus monodon, farmed in Asia. It's not nearly the quality, IMO, of shrimp taken from the wild shrimp fishery, but unfortunately shrimp fisheries all over the world are crashing from over-harvest. Tiger shrimps don't taste nearly as good and they often have a tough texture. I've gotten to the point where I just don't buy shrimp if it has dark stripes.

[Tab]

8. I wonder what you would need

to grow your own shrimp?

There is such a thing as freshwater shrimp, and also prawns, and even a grower's association (http://freshwaterprawn.org/), but I haven't looked to see what you'd have to go through just for a small personal supply of fresh shrimp. An aquarium, obviously, but I wonder if you could grow personal quantities of shrimp just like you might keep an herb garden....