''Aristeus antennatus'' is a species of deep-water prawn, commonly known as red prawn or prawns from

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. The exact same crustacean is also fished in the Mediterranean Spanish towns of

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, Garrucha and

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. It presents a very intense red color and it is valued for its fine, firm and tasty meat. It is fished with the technique of

bottom trawling Bottom trawling is trawling (towing a trawl, which is a fishing net) along the seafloor. It is also referred to as "dragging". The scientific community divides bottom trawling into benthic trawling and Demersal zone, demersal trawling. Benthic tra ...

and in the summer they are usually more abundant and larger in size.

History

The prawn traditionally has been fished off the Palamós coasts and in other Catalan coastal towns as by example

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, Arenys,

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or of the coast of Tarragona. Towards 1950 fishermen come from the south of Catalonia and of the Valencian Country they introduced the technology of fish trawling in Palamós and some very important fishing-grounds of shrimp were discovered. Since then it has gained importance in the Comfraria de Pescadors de Palamós (Palamós's Fishermen Guild), and nowadays it has achieved renown and recognition.

References

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