Types of prawn fishery
1. Shallow water prawn fishery – located on the west coast restricted to shallow waters.
2. Estuaries and back waters or saline lake prawn fishery – The area of production of prawns are the back waters seen along the Western coast, Ennur, Pulicat, Chilka lake and Estuaries of Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers.
3. Freshwater prawn fishery – Prawns are caught from the rivers and lakes throughout India.
4. Marine prawn fishery – Most of the marine prawns are caught along the Indian coast belonging to the .family Penaeidae.
