Shrimp start-up:New England shrimp farmers hope to create a niche for domestic product

摘要

Like many types of partnerships these days, the people behind a shrimp farm that is the first of its kind in New England found each other online.James Tran, founder and CEO of Sky 8 Shrimp Farm, investigated starting his own indoor shrimp farm by visiting operations in Indiana and Nevada and trying out small-scale experiments in his spare time. It was a career shift from the semiconductor business and his electrical engineering background, but made some sense given his family history of harvesting wild and farmed shrimp in Vietnam.