About 29 million pounds of brine shrimp cysts were harvested at the lake this past season, which normally runs from October through January every year, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources ...

That’s the finding from a pair of Caltech researchers, who used lasers to herd brine shrimp around a tank and track their effects on the water’s movement. The results, published in the journal ...

Crustaceans such as crabs, shrimp and barnacles belong to a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods, or invertebrates with exoskeletons. Fully grown brine shrimp are just half an inch ...

The tiny critters are found around the world — in Utah they're in the Great Salt Lake. Brine shrimp provide food for fish and commercially grown shrimp — a multi-million dollar industry in Utah.

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It’s actually more gooey and disgusting than that. What’s floating atop the lake is “trillions” of brine shrimp eggs, technically called cysts, according to Great Salt Lake State Park ...