According to a first aspect, the disclosure provides a shrimp aquaculture system containing a water container and floating feed for shrimp made of floating feed pellets. More specifically, the water containing may also contain water, such as a fresh water or saline water, including hyper saline water, and shrimp. In certain embodiments, at least 95% of the floating feed pellets may to remain on the surface of water for at least 1 minute after being placed on the water or may have an average specific gravity of between 0.1 and 1.1. According to a second aspect, the disclosure relates to a method of shrimp aquaculture including feeding floating feed to shrimp by placing the floating feed on water, such as fresh water or saline water, containing the shrimp. The floating feed may include at least 5% floating feed pellets.
