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The United States imports over a billion pounds of shrimp annually. Most of it travels thousands of miles from tropical farms, which have often degraded mangroves and other sensitive areas of coastlines. Now some U.S. shrimp farmers are raising shrimp indoors, using environmentally friendly techniques, and they’re producing a fresh, delicious product with a much gentler carbon footprint.
The United States imports over a billion pounds of shrimp annually. Most of it arrives frozen from environmentally destructive tropical farms. Now U.S. shrimp farmers are using environmentally friendly techniques to produce a fresh, delicious product with a much gentler environmental footprint. Living on Earth’s Naomi Arenberg reports.