Length-Weight Relation in the Common or White Shrimp

Excerpt from Length-Weight Relation in the Common or White Shrimp: Penaeus Setiferus The general practice in the shrimp industry is to refer to the size of shrimp in terms of the number required to make 1 pound. Two systems are in use-the number of whole shrimp per pound and the number of shrimp tails per pound. The latter is more generally used. Since the original measurements were made for whole shrimp, the factor has been applied to the number of whole shrimp per pound to obtain the approximate number of tails per pound. These data are presented in table 4 and in figure 2 and 3. Most of the commercial catch of white shrimp is composed of shrimp between 3 and 8 inches in total length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.