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Indiana Shrimp Farm Brings Seafood Closer To Home

Seafood lovers no longer need to look solely to Asian countries or the oil-ravaged gulf region to buy their shrimp. Four farms in Indiana are proving that you can produce shrimp in the land-locked Midwest.

Tim Connor has been raising shrimp in his backyard in Martin County, Indiana for seven years. He can harvest up of 450 pounds of shrimp from his 3/4 acre pond.

"I believe our shrimp - the freshwater shrimp, that we grow with the grain fed and everything - they're quality is much better than what we get from the Asian Countries," says Connor.

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