Their eggs are harvested and used as food for fish and shrimp, helping to contribute to a multimillion-dollar business in Utah, the release noted. The brine shrimp fishery at the Great Salt Lake ...

(Photo: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources) In fact, about 40% to 45% of global brine shrimp cysts and eggs come from the lake, Tim Hawkes, general counsel and vice chairman for the Great Salt ...

The shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake frames an otherworldly body of water, from pastel pink to deep marine blue. In the fall, its surface transforms with slicks of gold—made from millions of ...

People don't eat the brine shrimp, but their eggs are harvested and become food for a lot of things we do eat. Shrimp and fish bought in restaurants are fed with brine shrimp eggs. Millions of ...

Additionally, the harvest of brine shrimp eggs contributes to a multi-million dollar industry in Utah, according to DWR officials. They said the commercial brine shrimp fishery at the Great Salt ...

Brine shrimp are also important to Utah’s economy: When temperatures drop in the winter, adult shrimp release dormant eggs called cysts, which float on the surface of the lake. These cysts are ...

As a product, Sea-Monkeys were first sold in 1950s. Sea-Monkeys are sold in packets of dust comprised of brine shrimp eggs in suspended animation. The process used to create these creatures is ...

An extinct creature has risen from the dead, well, sort of. The creature — which once swam in salty water in Kazakhstan — was hatched from decades-old eggs, cloned and identified by scientists ...