Crustacean enthusiasts among you will have noticed that we have used the term shrimp throughout this piece.Jenny Mallinson, who ran the aquarium at the University of Southampton for 43 years, makes these distinctions:In the wild, British shrimps lie flat on the ground with the legs splayed out sideways and are grey with black spots
Prawns are also transparent, sometimes with red markings and some can take up the colour of the red or green seaweed they are living in. Shrimp farming has helped drive up incomes in rural areas and has become a valuable export business. India is the world's biggest exporter of frozen shrimp, a trade worth almost $5bn a year."Around one million rural farmers and coastal communities depend on shrimp and fish aquaculture, but traditional farming practices prevent them from achieving production efficiency and fail to predict diseases," says Rajamanohar Somasundaram, the chief executive and co-founder of AquaConnect.