The Chinese white shrimp, oriental shrimp, or fleshy prawn (''Fenneropenaeus chinensis'') is a species of

shrimp Shrimp are crustaceans (a form of shellfish) with elongated bodies and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – most commonly Caridea and Dendrobranchiata of the decapod order, although some crustaceans outside of this order are refer ...

. It is cultivated at an industrial level off

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. Production was devastated by a series of

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in the 1990s and early 2000s. Its wild capture has since recovered and expanded, but it is now farmed at lower levels than previously.

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Species Fact Sheets: ''Penaeus chinensis'' (Osbeck, 1765)
2014. It was formerly known as ''Cancer chinensis'', ''Penaeus chinensis'' and ''Penaeus orientalis'', but has been reassigned to '' Fenneropenaeus''.

Conservation Status

In response to the decimation of the species due to disease and overfishing, China began releasing juvenile ''F. chinensis'' in an effort to increase the corresponding annual catch starting in 1984. The program produced considerable results, with an average release of approximately 600 million and catch of 720 trillion annually as of 2006.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3002537 Penaeidae Commercial crustaceans Edible crustaceans Animal-based seafood Korean seafood Crustaceans described in 1765 Taxa named by Pehr Osbeck