Red drum to be farmed in new land-based project

https://thefishsite.com/articles/red-drum-to-be-farmed-in-new-land-based-project

Red drum, a favourite throughout the Gulf Coast and Atlantic states, has been federally protected from commercial harvest in the US since the 1980s. There’s limited harvest of red drum in a few states as well as a valuable sport fishery, but its current market presence has been largely from imported farmed products, due to recent deep freezes in the southern US.

Aiming to bring the fish back to the table in the US, Megan Sorby, most recently operations manager for Kingfish Maine, is initiating a new land based RAS project to farm red drum for North American consumers.