(Hiram, OH) Russ Fair gathered about two dozen friends and relatives yesterday to linger while he harvested his shrimp farm for the second year. It consisted of draining a quarter-acre sized pond where the shrimp have been growing for the past 100 days.
Around Memorial Day, he bought 4,000 larval shrimp for a dime each, for his second attempt. "You could fit that many in a 20 oz. coffee cup," he said.The final tally in the harvest was 770 shrimp weighing a total of about 38 pounds. Not including the cost of feed, the shrimp cost a little more than $10 a pound.
Mr. Fair's shrimp farm is one of six being monitored by Ohio State University researchers.
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