Florida Organic Aquaculture to open US's largest closed-water shrimp production facility next month
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [SCOM] April 7, 2014
The largest closed-water shrimp production facility in the US is slated to get its Pacific white shrimp operations underway May 7 this year.
Florida Organic Aquaculture's Fellsmere-based production facility will start production just a little over a month from now. The 180,000 sq. ft, about 4.13 acres, is the largest facility of its kind in the US.
FOA's $22 million project allows the company to grow its colossal Pacific white shrimp in an environmentally-safe and energy-efficient system that raises the shrimp without chemicals and preservatives the company said.
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