Shrimp Farms

I know there are shrimp farms around the Zihua area. I'm wondering if there are any 'contained' farms, particularly with white legged shrimp. If so, what are the positives & negatives?

there is a farm on the first Playa Larga turn off way before the left turn for Cocayul/Acapulco .I have only seen the farm from a distance up on a hill so I can t say what type of shrimp they raise.

Also, are there oyster farms? I first bought a little bag of small, all the same-sized oysters from a women on the bus. Also the seafood/mariscos restaurant I love serves these oysters. Have eaten them for years and never had a problem. Anyone know where they are farmed?

Also, are there oyster farms? I first bought a little bag of small, all the same-sized oysters from a women on the bus. Also the seafood/mariscos restaurant I love serves these oysters. Have eaten them for years and never had a problem. Anyone know where they are farmed?

No oyster farms here. We’re lucky to have any at all from too many years of unregulated overharvesting of local oyster populations. Same as happened to the red clams we no longer have.

There used to be quite a large facility in Guymas. They also produced pearls. Considering the facility, they are probably still in business.

There are oyster farms in Alaska. The water is too cold for them to breed, so they just work on getting fat and tasty! The stock is brought in from Washington, I believe.

Crayfish are also grown in Lago Lazaro Cardenas and are sold all over, including on the street a block behind the mercado.

So you think these oysters are from Alaska? Seems unlikely, don' you think?

This is good to know! Thank you!

Guaymas, Sonora? That's quite far. Wouldn't there be a source closer to here? They definitely look like and taste like northern oysters, not l the oysters from our bay which taste more like clams. But maybe the colder water near Guaymas would creat that real oyster taste. So they must have been frozen if they were shipped here?

I sure hope nobody is eating the oysters or any shells coming from the bay. It has been here that people have been warned not to eat any shells from within the bay. I would be curious as well to know where oysters with a horthern taste would be coming from. Not likely to be frozen as I have never seen this done with oysters but kept on ice is more likely. They may be flown in our east coast or west coast.

Coming from the "Oyster Capital" of North America! I can tell you that freezing oysters does not go well! They will survive out of water for quite a while, and even longer if stored on ice! I'm sorry but the Mexican oysters cannot hold a candle to the more Northern ones!

I wasn't suggesting that any oysters are being exported from Alaska. I simply stated that the ones grown there are very delicious.

Coming from the "Oyster Capital" of North America! I can tell you that freezing oysters does not go well! They will survive out of water for quite a while, and even longer if stored on ice! I'm sorry but the Mexican oysters cannot hold a candle to the more Northern ones!

Unless you're from the Gulf Coast you ain't from no "oyster capital of North America" my Canadian friend.

Personally, getting poisoned once decades ago on local oysters was more than enough for me. Three days writhing in agony hugging a cool cement floor. I no longer eat them here for two main reasons. (1) Most communities along our coast have no wastewater treatment plants, and even when they have them they often don't work; and (2) absolutely no one respects the off-season for oysters. And worldwide because of that very same attitude we are literally fishing the oceans out.

So when I think of local seafood, oysters are not on that menu.

And frankly after all the damage in recent years to the Gulf of Mexico, I'm not sure those are safe to eat anymore either.

Eating shells does not sound like a culinary delight, and tough on the teeth!

Eating shells does not sound like a culinary delight, and tough on the teeth!

Shellfish. Moluscos. Bivalvos.

Are you having sport with my readers again?

Absolutely! While attempting to master a second language, I'm still trying to help people master the use of English!

Absolutely! While attempting to master a second language, I'm still trying to help people master the use of English!

Back in the days of weekend psychedelics we had a name for people like you...

Hey, thanks!!!

I watched a guy downing a plateful of oysters at Daniel's tonight. Splattered with Tabasco sauce and washed down with Corona beer. Hope he survives.