July 30, 2010
More shrimp farms mean more fresh shrimp – year round
More news on the shrimp farming front: a young company from a young entrepreneur, the Marvesta Shrimp Farm is an intensive, greenhouse-enclosed shrimp farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Normally an Asian concept, Marvesta is moving ahead with shrimp farming here in the U.S. and after 4 years in the making, it looks like they may have finally panned things out successfully for their shrimp farm.
“With more than one-third of the Gulf Coast closed off to fishermen and shrimpers, the domestic seafood industry has been hit very hard, but one company sees these hard times as a chance to find new ways of growing and harvesting shrimp. …It ships almost 130,000 pounds of fresh shrimp a year to restaurants from New York to California.” – Baltimore, Maryland TV commentator
This recent TV news broadcast includes some good views of the farm’s tanks, plumbing, equipment, and owners for anybody here in South Carolina or elsewhere are interested in their setup. I also included their contact info below.
I was wondering how they dealt with sustainability, and even though I was disappointed to see that their ‘sustainability’ page was down, I did see this snippet on their ‘shrimp’ page:
“Marvesta Shrimp Farms harvest shrimp 365 days a year and is committed to achieving 100% customer satisfaction. Due to the proprietary nature of the Company’s system, they are not dependent on any external factors and utilize a completely indoor Bio-Secure facility to remain not only fully sustainable, but reliable year round”. – Marvesta Shrimp Farm
Information: Scott Fritze, Andrew Hanzlik and Guy Furman, Marvesta Shrimp Farms, 201 Enterprise Drive, Hurlock, Maryland 21643, USA (phone 1-410-943-1733, fax 1-410-943-1734, email guy@marvesta.com, webpage http://www.marvesta.com).
Stephen Liesen, of Quincy Illinois, caught a 380lb. lemon shark last Thursday, just outside Port Royal Sound in 35′ of water, claiming the new state record. His lemon shark beat the old record by 10lbs., which was set back in 2002 by Ronald Price of Ladson.
Stephen said the female lemon shark put up a good fight, and that it took him over 30 minutes to get it to the boat, leaving him exhausted. He used a 6.5′ Shakespeare Ugly Stik rod paired with a Shimano Tiagra reel, probably similar to the one pictured below, and had cut barracuda fillets for bait.
