Strictly speaking, metapenaeus ensis is not a shrimp but its scientific name! I have to say that smart fishermen can always describe their food with an appropriate name! "metapenaeus ensis" refers to the fields along the coast of Guangdong. In order to prevent flooding, please build a dike around. This kind of shrimp has one characteristic, that is, it likes to live in shallow sea area. In the salt with low salinity, its body always lurks in the seabed, leaving only its eyes and head to breathe, just like a scout, waiting for food to trap itself and watching the movement around it. When the tide rises, it will change its position, climb to the gentle embankment, and often lay eggs there, which is discovered by fishermen! Shrimps who want to hunt for food never imagined that fishermen found their habitat. Clever fishermen pull the fishing nets in the inner bay, or build stone foundations to wait for the shrimps to throw their own nets. And invented "environmental breeding".
Therefore, the shrimp caught by the previous generation of fishermen using the base net is also called the base net shrimp. The northern groundnet shrimp refers to Penaeus japonicus, commonly known as: spotted shrimp, spotted shrimp and automobile shrimp, belonging to crustacean, decapod, swimming subclass, shrimp family and shrimp, with thin and hard shell and thick meat.
The southern net shrimp in the southern market, here the net shrimp does not refer to Japanese shrimp! Most people refer to the earliest "prawn". It is the earliest "metapenaeus ensis", commonly known as shrimp. Similar to the form of shrimp, it belongs to crustacean, shrimp family and new shrimp. Its shell is soft, its figure is small, and its length is about 8 cm. The shrimp body is reddish brown, with 9 teeth on the upper edge and no teeth on the lower edge!
The more striking function is that the body is red and white, and the body is covered with brown spots! Shrimp with wide salt property has strong adaptability. It is mainly distributed in the east coast of Japan, East China Sea and South China Sea, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. The output is very high in the coastal areas of Guangdong.