Shrimping West Texas
By Bart Reid
Texana / Science / Aquaculture
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 21, 2024
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ABOUT THE BOOK: When you think of a marine environment, what do you picture? Wetlands, possibly; coastal shores, perhaps. When you think of a shrimp farm, what do you picture? Some folks who know a thing or two about aquaculture might say any marine or freshwater environment will do.
Bart Reid, one of the founders of the Permian Sea Shrimp company, is here to tell you otherwise. Shrimping West Texas is the story of that business and the history of the harebrained notion that farming shrimp is possible in the West Texas desert.
Spanning twenty years of successes and failures, Reid captures the quintessential West Texas entrepreneurial spirit, tallies the unique environmental factors that made this possible, and depicts the motley crew of business folks, scientists, and schemers who were part of the tale.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bart Reid is a marine biologist with a master's degree from Texas A&M. He has been in the aquaculture (fish farming) business for over 30 years. After many years of farming shrimp in west Texas he now farms algae for Omega 3 supplements and bioplastics. He also owns Bart’s Bay Armor, a fishing apparel and wading boot company based out of Port Mansfield, Texas, where he fishes on the Laguna Madre.
