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Article: Crustacean Farmer Shows Culinary World That West Texas Is Worth Its Salt.
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- December 23, 2003
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By Dotty Griffith, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 23--IMPERIAL, Texas-Seagulls swirl and swoop in the gray winter skies above the dusty Permian Basin. The big white birds are as improbable as the prey that lures them: desert-grown shrimp.
Never mind that this patch of wind-blown West Texas is better known for oil fields than seafood farms. All that drilling occasionally released underground saltwater, remnants of the Permian Sea that covered the area eons ago.
In 1992, a wildcatter's bust turned out to be a marine biologist's gusher.
Dallas-raised Bart Reid and his wife, Patsy, punched holes in ...