New shrimp farm operation supplies fresh shrimp

Grant Jones, along with parents, Shawn and Julie Jones, have started a new business southwest of Champion on the Chase/Dundy county line called the Chundy Aquaculture Company. The brand name is Champion Shrimp.
Grant is the manager and operator of Champion Shrimp shrimp farm, supplying fresh shrimp to the area.
“I received my first batch of older PLs (post larval baby shrimp) from a source in Indiana on  April 1,” Jones said.
“I just started up my nursery the middle of September with PL10s (under 10 days old) with shipments coming from Texas,” he added.
Jones has two nursery tanks that hold 10,000 PL10s each and eight tanks that hold 3,500 PL60s (shrimp 60 days old), he said.
He receives PL10 batches of shrimp monthly, and it takes PL10s about six months to grow large enough to harvest.
“I sell them by the pound which is 20-23 count shrimp per pound,” Jones said.
Currently, he sells shrimp to individual buyers directly and delivers fresh shrimp to Imperial Super Foods every Thursday.
Can’t believe fresh shrimp
Jill Moline of Imperial Super Foods said Jones has been delivering shrimp to the store for four weeks now.
She said shrimp sales are going really well.
“The comments we keep getting from people say they can’t believe they can buy fresh shrimp locally raised,” she said. “Some have thought it was a joke.”
“It is the freshest shrimp you will ever get here because it comes straight from the tanks where they’re raised and arrives at the store within an hour—can’t get any fresher than that,” she added.
Moline said she has really never eaten fresh shrimp before, and this shrimp is not comparable to anything she’s ever had.
“The flavor and texture is very different. It is so much more flavorful than other shrimp you can buy,” Moline said.
She encourages people to support this new business and entrepreneurship in the community.
How it works
The shrimp farm business is growing in the Midwest, Jones said.
He is only the fourth shrimp business in Nebraska so far.
“I read a business article sometime back about raising shrimp that caught my eye. The idea of diversifying into a new direction  was appealing,” he said.
Jones chose to go with a biological filter called the Biofloc  zero water exchange system as opposed to a mechanical filtering system.

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