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The Former Refugee Who Became an Engineer - and Shrimper

When James Tran was a boy, he and his siblings had to flee Vietnam. He ended up in the United States, where he studied to become an engineer. Now he’s found a way to combine his skills and his culture—by raising seafood in a warehouse near Boston. He gave reporter Pien Huang a tour of his entrepreneurial shrimp farm.

Picture: James Tran holds up a shrimp from his entrepreneurial farm near Boston. Credit: Pien Huang

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