While shrimp are at the top of the list of America’s favorite seafood, many of us wouldn’t consider them beautiful. But to Gary Wood of Desert Sweet Shrimp, those small crustaceans are as prized, as precious, as luminous as gold.
Did you know: Arizona is awash in aquaculture! More than half a million pounds of desert shrimp are being raised on farms throughout the state. That’s up from 6,000 when the industry started in 1997. Other "watery" products from The Grand Canyon State: farm-raised trout and tilapia, a popular white fish.
