NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks SEAD Consulting's Erin Williams, whose company tests seafood, how often U.S. restaurants use farmed and imported shrimp rather than local and wild-caught shrimp.

An automated feeding station floats atop a Pescanova shrimp pond. By using Smartfarm’s data-fueled insights, Portugal says he made more informed decisions about how to better sustain his colony.

Shrimp farms were also sold or abandoned during the coastal real estate boom of the 1990s and 2000s, according to Stokes. "It just became too expensive to maintain a pond," Stokes said, "when nice ...