Species profile
Prawn
Pandalus borealis
At a glance
Prawn (Pandalus borealis) is an invertebrate regulated in 2 of 66 jurisdictions tracked by CatchRules across the U.S. and Canada.
Confirmed by 12 research-grade iNaturalist observations, with Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Massachusetts the top jurisdictions by observation count.
Notable details
- Northern shrimp are protandrous hermaphrodites — all individuals begin life as males, then become female.
- They live in cold Atlantic and Pacific waters at depths of 150–500 meters.
- Northern shrimp can live up to 8 years, reaching about 3 inches in body length.
- Females carry fertilized eggs under their abdomen for nearly 9 months before the eggs hatch.
- They support major commercial fisheries in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Atlantic Canada.
Where Prawn are seen
Jurisdictions with rules for Prawn
Background
Pandalus borealis is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The FAO refers to them as the northern prawn. Other common names include coldwater prawn, pink shrimp, deepwater prawn, deep-sea prawn, great northern prawn, crevette nordique and northern shrimp.
Background excerpt adapted from Wikipedia's Prawn article (CC BY-SA). Visit Wikipedia for the full entry.
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