The best place to grow ocean shrimp

Desert Sweet Shrimp Farms have achieved an industry milestone by successfully developing the first domesticated strain of ocean shrimp uniquely adapted to the lower-salinity and higher water quality and growing conditions of the Arizona desert. Our pilot hatchery has, for the first time, successfully taken ocean shrimp through a complete life cycle away from the ocean, signaling the final step in developing a viable inland shrimp industry.

For consumers, the availability of Desert Sweet Shrimp means higher quality, better tasting, disease-free shrimp without any iodine bitterness. Desert Sweet Shrimp are virtually clear in color – free of ocean pollutants and the antibiotics and preservatives typically necessary for growing shrimp in the coastal waters of environmentally unregulated 3rd world countries.

Now that Desert Sweet Shrimp no longer has to import shrimp from the ocean for breeding, our closed, carefully controlled biofiltration system is virtually risk-free from infection by ocean-borne shrimp pathogens. Our genetic strain of shrimp is a result of natural selection and their ability to flourish in the desert climate.

For the agriculture industry, Desert Sweet Shrimp inland shrimp farming techniques offers farmers in the United States desert Southwest an additional revenue-generating opportunity that compliments existing farming operations. In fact, the additional revenue from shrimp farming has the real potential to surpass the earnings from existing crops.

And for the environment, Desert Sweet Shrimp innovative shrimp aqua-farming techniques make maximum use of existing land and water resources, without added pollution or other environmental concerns. Our shrimp farming techniques consistently demonstrate some of the fastest growth rates in the western hemisphere, in large measure because our ponds are constantly being filled with fresh, clean, well water that is kept oxygenated by aerators. Significant milestones include:

Successfully achieving sexual maturity of white shrimp (Paneais Vannamei) broodstock raised in low-salinity water in a closed, re-circulated biofiltration system.

Successfully hatching first-generation nauplii (pre-larval stage) to be used for genetic selection and breeding – helping to eliminate the need to import ocean-grown shrimp for breeding purposes.

Successfully rearing shrimp nauplii through their various stages in a pilot hatchery.

Over the past two years, we’ve conducted hundreds of experiments in shrimp husbandry, with resulting production as high as 11,000 lbs. per acre. One of the most critically important experiments led us to discover how to raise a gourmet sweet shrimp as good or better-tasting than any shrimp raised anywhere in the world. Currently, our 18 high-tech growing ponds are home to over 7 million shrimp.

We consider our greatest personal and industry achievements to be two-fold:

Developing the first domesticated strain of ocean shrimp uniquely adapted to the growing conditions of the Arizona desert.

Economically and environmentally integrating shrimp farming into the existing operational infrastructure of conventional crop-farming.

Desert Sweet Shrimp is planning a special seminar on April 15 and 16, 1999 to show farmers and other interested parties the potential of our inland growing techniques for raising rich-tasting, disease-free shrimp in the United States Desert Southwest.

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