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LaCOSTE, Texas (AP) — It was a Texas-sized shrimp dream, to breed tasty crustaceans far from shore but close to transportation hubs that would speed fresh seafood to swanky restaurants as far away as New York or Las Vegas.

But for 17 years and despite millions of dollars in trial-and-error investment, Dallas-based NaturalShrimp kept encountering the same obstacles that have bedeviled similar efforts across the globe: The shrimp kept getting sick. Devastating bacterial outbreaks in its closed-loop indoor farming system and other setbacks left the company with a cumulative $34 million deficit.

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