Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife SHELLFISH


Northern (Rough) Pink Shrimp
Pandalus eous

rough pink photo

The northern pink shrimp is less than six inches (15 cm) long, smaller than the spot shrimp and the sidestripe shrimp. It can be distinguished from ocean pink shrimp by a small spine on the top of the third tail segment.

rough pink drawing

Northern pink shrimp are found primarily in the San Juan Islands, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and in northern Puget Sound.

Other links

The Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering (RACE) Division of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center

British Columbia

King County Metro

Please check Fishing Regulation page for regulation changes
or
Shellfish Hotline 1-866-880-5431 ((360)796-3215 locally).


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