In recent years Arizona has also made significant contributions to the annual harvest with 30 licensed fish farms or facilities producing about 1.3 million pounds of striped and large-mouth bass, catfish, tilapia and trout and more than 168,000 pounds of shrimp.
The desert fish farms are promising since they use a previously untapped water resource which is not in high demand for urban centers because of its salinity.
 Farmers have learned, however, how to use the salty resource for growing some crops. . .
AZ. Farmers raise fish in the desert
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