New inland fish and shrimp farms are popping up throughout the interior of the United States.

Some have the goal of being organic. Others are committed to also being environmentally sound. They grow shrimp or fish without chemicals or hormones in a controlled environment to prevent disease and contamination of ground water. They even raise their own babies and feed them chemical-free fish grown in the same farm.

Food & Water Watch visited one such organic farm––read below about the visit. If you see U.S. farmed shrimp, it's a good alternative to imported shrimp. These entrepreneurs learned from the mistakes of coastal shrimp aquaculture and do not want to repeat that.

Currently, there are no organic standards for seafood, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture is currently developing organic standards for farm-raised seafood. Those standards are expected to be complete by the fall of 2007.

There are other inland fish production systems that raise familiar fish, such as catfish and tilapia. Find out more about these operations––some are good and some are not!