Pandalus montagui, Aesop shrimp : fisheries

Pandalus montagui   Leach, 1814

Aesop shrimp

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Malacostraca | Decapoda | Pandalidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 0 - 968 m (Ref. 101286).  Temperate, preferred 5°C (Ref. 107945); 82°N - 43°N, 71°W - 68°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northern Atlantic and the Arctic: From Canada and USA to UK, Germany and Russia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 0.9, range 1 - ? cm Max length : 16.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8); max. reported age: 4 years (Ref. 106917)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Common in offshore waters (Ref. 106917). Epifaunal in areas with sludge (Ref. 96352). Free-living (Ref. 3123).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Mating behavior: Precopulatory courtship ritual is common (through olfactory and tactile cues); usually indirect sperm transfer (Ref. 833).

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Harms, J. 1993. (Ref. 2711)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings, species profile | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: species profile; publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 6 - 9.7, mean 7.4 (based on 222 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.96-1.2; tm=1).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (19 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Low to moderate vulnerability (30 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.
Nutrients :  Calcium = 109 [35, 184] mg/100g; Iron = 1.59 [1.21, 1.97] mg/100g; Protein = 20.2 [19.2, 21.3] %; Omega3 = 0.285 [0.185, 0.386] g/100g; Selenium = 48.3 [-31.7, 128.3] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.79 [1.17, 2.40] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.

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