Examples of prawn

• In addition, they serve as nursery areas and habitats for commercially valuable shrimp and prawns, and for locally consumed fish species and mangrove crabs.

• Mudflats are areas where many species of fish, prawns, shellfish, and other marine fauna spawn and feed.

• Commercial species including prawns, sardines, mackerels, oil sardines, and some crustaceans are harvested in the region.

• The impact of the increasing importance of prawns in fisheries has been felt in estuarine fishing too.

• They were isolated for more than six months and during this period fed on frozen mussels and prawns only.

• Most species-including prawns and crabs-are popular where seafood has traditionally been easily available.

• Particularly, the catches of some major species such as breams, mackerel, prawns, and cephalopods declined over the years.

• In contrast to this, according to the upstream fishermen, only those prawns and fishes that escape the fishing nets in the estuarine bar mouth reach them.