How an urban shrimp farm in Downey, California is offering an innovative, sustainable alternative to overfishing
Enter a mysterious warehouse in Downey, full of 300,000 gallons of water: TransparentSea is one of the country’s first urban shrimp farms.
Times News Express
Dec 11, 2021
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“We want to relieve pressure off wild stocks by being more efficient with our marine resources and growing them in a farm,” said Sutton. “And second we want to produce for our consumers a clean product that they can know, without a doubt, there’s no question this does not have any chemicals added to it.
“People want to know where their food comes from and they’re willing to pay to make sure it’s what they want. That’s primarily why I moved to L.A. — from a business standpoint, I think there’s also a lot of cultures here who value shrimp.”
Pacific white leg prawns come from a hatchery in Florida. Seventeen days into their lives, they’re shipped via Fedex to TransparentSea’s warehouse in Downey, where they’re farmed for three months before being ready to eat.
When the shrimp arrive, they spend one month in the nursery before moving to one of eight production tanks that replicate the ocean environment with a water temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
