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Article: Vero Beach, Fla., company pushes limits to grow shrimp bigger, faster.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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By Susan Salisbury, The Palm Beach Post, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 16--Two months ago, 100,000 larvae, each one the size of a pinhead, arrived from Sri Lanka at the Port of Miami.
From there, they were trucked in 70 foam boxes to Vero Beach, where, if all goes well, they will form the basis of the first successful venture of its kind in the United States.
The larvae were that of the Penaeus monodon, or giant black tiger shrimp, so-called for its banded tail and huge size. Commonly raised on farms in Asia, the shrimp grow to as much as 14 1/2 inches (though they usually are harvested at 9 to 11 inches).
"They ...
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