"Felice Friese" > wrote in message
. ..
> For years I've been buying bags of frozen farm-raised raw shrimp with
> tails on, from various sources and various distributors. All have, with
> few exceptions, been nicely deveined and quite tasty.
>
> My local Shaw's has now added wild raw shrimp from "American" waters, at
> about the same price (perhaps a dollar less) and the seafood people
> recommended I try them. I found the ones I bought to be poorly deveined at
> best, and quite tough.
>
> I attribute the lack of proper deveining to be careless processing, but
> what about the toughness? Before I report back to my seafood man, can
> anyone tell me of differences they have noticed between wild and farmed,
> and/or between American (whatever that means) and imported?
>
> Felice
>

Based on my experience recently, "fresh caught" shrimp actually taste like
the ocean, whereas the frozen ones are pretty bland. Tough? Cook them less.
Fresh caught shrimp will not be as consistent as farm raised shrimp, due to
seasonal variations in their diet.

As far as deveining, that's not a good reason to avoid a certain kind of
shrimp. It wasn't so long ago that NO shrimp were deveined. Do it yourself.