some of my favorite food is seafood, specifically shrimp.  Shrimp and prawn are important types of seafood that are consumed worldwide!
Shrimp is one of my favorite seafood items, I like it with pasta a lot.
Yeah and some shrimp and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance and the terms are often used.
I never knew that. I wonder if I've eaten prawn and thought I was eating shrimp?
well recently there is a distinction drawn in aquaculture literature, which increasingly uses the term "prawn" only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and "shrimp" for the marine penaeids.
Wow, you really know your seafood! So what body of water do we get most of our shrimp and prawn from?
farmed shrimp is produced in Asia, in particular in China and Thailand. The other 25% is produced mainly in Latin America, where Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico are the largest producers. The largest exporting nation is Thailand.
Shrimp farming has changed from traditional, small-scale businesses in Southeast Asia into a global industry. Technological advances have led to growing shrimp at ever higher densities, and broodstock is shipped worldwide. Virtually all farmed shrimp are of the family Penaeidae, and just two species – "Penaeus
Shrimp and prawn as food
Shrimp and prawn are important types of seafood that are consumed worldwide. Although shrimp and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance and the terms are often used interchangeably in commercial farming and wild fisheries. A distinction is drawn in recent aquaculture literature, which increasingly uses the term "prawn" only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and "shrimp" for the marine penaeids.
In the United Kingdom, the word "prawn" is more common on menus than