US farming - top states with aquaculture production

Description

Aquaculture is the farming of fish and other organisms like shrimp and prawn, oyster, mussel, etc as well as aquatic plants such as seaweed and algae such as plankton.

Total sales of aquaculture in the United States amounted to $1.8 billion in 2017, with the top states being Mississippi at $231 million, Washington State at $208 million and Louisiana at $134 million.

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