What are Pink Shrimp?
Pink shrimp are coldwater shrimp in the genus Pandalus. These shrimp are widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, where they are a very commercially important seafood product. Many markets sell fresh and frozen pink shrimp, which can be prepared in a wide variety of ways, and the shrimp can also be used as bait for catching other seafood species. These shrimp go by a variety of alternate common names, including Oregon shrimp, Alaska shrimp, Oregon pink shrimp, Pacific shrimp, and ocean shrimp. Despite the concentration of references to the West Coast of North America in these common names, these shrimp are in fact found in the Atlantic as well, and they tend to prefer to cluster around the continental slope in the muddy bottom of the ocean floor. Pink shrimp are widely fished in most of the regions where they congregate, typically with the use of drag nets.
