. 5 cm (from Fischer 1978) Common Name: Pink shrimp Scientific Name: Penaeus duorarum Other Common Names Brown spotted shrimp; Green shrimp, grooved shrimp, hopper, pink spotted shrimp, pink night shrimp, pushed shrimp, red shrimp, skipper, spotted shrimp (Costello and Allen 1970, Motoh 1977, McKenzie 1981, Bielsa et al. 1983, Williams 1984); crevette roche du nord (French), camaron rosado norteno (Spanish) (Fischer 1978, NOAA 1985). Classification (Williams et al. 1989) Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Crustacea Order: Decapoda Family: Penaeidae Value Commercial: Shrimping is the second most valuabl
. 5 cm (from Fischer 1978) Common Name: Pink shrimp Scientific Name: Penaeus duorarum Other Common Names Brown spotted shrimp; Green shrimp, grooved shrimp, hopper, pink spotted shrimp, pink night shrimp, pushed shrimp, red shrimp, skipper, spotted shrimp (Costello and Allen 1970, Motoh 1977, McKenzie 1981, Bielsa et al. 1983, Williams 1984); crevette roche du nord (French), camaron rosado norteno (Spanish) (Fischer 1978, NOAA 1985). Classification (Williams et al. 1989) Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Crustacea Order: Decapoda Family: Penaeidae Value Commercial: Shrimping is the second most valuable commercial fishery in the , and ranks seventh in quantity (NMFS 1993). landings of all shrimp species combined in the Gulf of Mexico were thousand mt in 1992, and were valued at $ million. Total pink shrimp harvest in the Gulf of Mexico was 4,785 mt in 1991, and pink shrimp typically comprise 8% of the total Gulf of Mexico shrimp land- ings (NOAA 1993). The pink shrimp is a commercially important species throughout the Gulf of Mexico, and its stocks have historically been considered quite stable compared to those of white and brown shrimp (Nance and Nichols 1988). However, the Tortugas pink shrimp fishery has had considerable fluctuation in landings and effort since 1986 (Nance 1994, Sheridan 1996, Steele pers. comm.). Most of the commercial catch is taken by otter and roller-frame trawls, but other meth- ods include haul seines, cast, butterfly, drop, push, and channel nets (Costello and Allen 1970, Eldridge and Goldstein 1975, Eldridge and Goldstein 1977, Steele pers. comm.). Federal and some state laws may require the use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) year-round on shrimp trawls, but bait shrimpers (catch <16 kg/day, trawl < m) may be exempt from this rule (Nance pers. comm.). The major pink shrimp fishery is in the Tortuga and Sanibel grounds of south- west Florida. In Texas there is also a major fishery, but the pink shrimp is often
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