Shrimp

Shrimp

       A long wiki article on the subject can be found at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp

            As to the question of whether you can eat bait shrimp, here's more links and opinions: 

                        http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080714091039AAQsHhq

                        http://forums.floridasportsman.com/showthread.php?30640-eating-the-bait&s=d0cb395bb71d771640f463058f685fa6

                        http://www.charlestonfishing.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=131144

                       

Posters comments:

I used to live by the coast in several places.

I often used to buy shrimp fresh from the boat, usually a trawler. There were usually two prices, one for bait shrimp and one for eating shrimp. I never could figure out the difference.

I also used to use a casting net to catch shrimp in shallow estuaries.

Where I live now in rural east Tennessee, the shrimp I get here tends to be frozen and farm raised, usually in SE Asia.