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Mark Thorson

wrote:
>
> I have a freind who used to be a shrimp farmer. He told me that those
> tiny shrimp you get in junky shrimp salads? Those are the floaters.
> They died and floated to the top of the tank and are sort of fresh but
> dead, so I now avoid all tiny shrimp. Rather have them fresh frozen
> than floaters who later becaome frozen.

I've seen salad shrimp being removed from a large frozen can
(yes, some canned food is frozen, presumably because it was
never sterilized) which was clearly marked as coming from
Alaska. I don't believe they farm shrimp in Alaska.

However that was maybe 20 years ago. As I understand it,
the Alaskan shrimp fishery has since collapsed.