'Consumers won't pay': Huge US indoor shrimp project has had to make big changes

Despite calls from US wild shrimp harvesters for a stop to cheap, frozen imports, American consumers are proving harder to convince.

CP Foods' huge Florida shrimp farm: a 180,000 square foot insulated metal building holding forty 100-meter circular production tanks, with capacity to produce 160 metric tons per year.
CP Foods' huge Florida shrimp farm: a 180,000 square foot insulated metal building holding forty 100-meter circular production tanks, with capacity to produce 160 metric tons per year.Photo: Robins McIntosh/CP Foods
Published 16 January 2025, 08:41Updated 16 January 2025, 14:37
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