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Local & fresh Pacific White shrimp About Us Located in Story City, Iowa, Midland Co. is a land-based seafood company dedicated to raising sustainable, ethical, and delicious seafood. Using innovative Algae-Based™ RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems) technology, Midland Co. strives to be stewards of the environment. Our shrimp are responsibly raised and are free of hormones, antibiotics, and chemicals. Pacific white shrimp is a warm water species that have a robust flavor profile with a lobster-like richness – sweet but earthy, tender yet firm. Being fresh (yes, never frozen), the shrimp’s natural flavors are expressed. Midland’s shrimp are delivered tank-to-table within 24 hours. Our shrimp are raised in our commercial demonstration facility. Located in Story City, Iowa in a repurposed mall off of Interstate 35, the 20,000 square foot facility will be the model for future contract grower-out facilities. Each facility has the capacity to produce 80,000 lbs. of shrimp annually. Midland’s contract grower model will work with Midwest family farms to integrate shrimp production into their enterprises. Shrimp contract grow-out production is a high-value opportunity that will diversify farm operations, increase profitability, and engage families across generations. Browse through our Products for Sale Practices (our standards for raising or making our products) Responsibly Raised Through Algae-Based RAS™ - Sourcing sustainable seafood is complicated. The wild-caught seafood industry is unable to meet growing seafood demand while protecting ocean habitats that are finite and fragile. Farmed fish, or aquaculture, is accepted industry-wide as the answer to wild-caught fishing concerns but has faced its own challenges. Most farmed shrimp are raised in countries with minimal government oversight presenting some major handling and safety concerns as well as environmental sustainability issues. Domestic, land-based systems address all these concerns but only account for less than 1% of the shrimp we buy, and international production is predicted to continue to dominate the market. Midland Co. is dedicated to changing this narrative. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is an indoor, land-based closed contained system with a “controlled” environment. These systems filter and clean the water to be recirculated back through to the fish. Midland’s technology simplifies RAS systems with a new, innovative technology– algae-based wastewater treatment. The algae captures nutrients from water and carbon from the air, leaving the water purified and oxygenated in a single one-step wastewater treatment system. The nutrient-dense algae are then recovered to be used as a new regenerative fertilizer for Iowa’s agricultural land. This zero-discharge technology makes it one of the most sustainable forms of aquaculture today. |