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Introducing the bouquet shrimp
Found on all the rocky coasts of France, the bouquet shrimp is a large shrimp that can exceed 10 cm in length. It has a spiny rostrum, long antennae and shorter antennules armed with whips. Its color varies from gray to pink, with darker or lighter red streaks.
Bouquet shrimp feed mainly on worms, dead fish and algae. It is sometimes referred to as pink shrimp, chevrette or calembo.
Collection and preservation techniques
Fairly easy to find, depending on the biotopes available to you, prawns can be harvested with a landing net from rocks or puddles. You can also catch a large number of shrimp using creels or scales fitted with a piece of sardine or mackerel. At night, use a flashlight to spot the red eyes of the shrimp reflected in the light beam, and then collect them with a landing net.
Shrimp can be kept alive for just a few days in a bucket of water oxygenated with a bubbler and kept in a cool place.
Its fishing may be subject to regulations that differ from region to region. For further information, please contact the relevant Maritime Affairs office.
Use
Prawns can be used whole or in pieces, live or dead, raw or cooked. Live shrimp is the bait of choice for bass and wolffish, and is often used with a float to delicately deposit this fragile bait.
In sections, it can be used to catch a wide range of fish, such as sars, eels and rockfish. You can even use cooked shrimp to catch mullet and sauper.
The live shrimp is a rather fragile bait, requiring light fishing techniques such as float, toc or longline. This bait should be used close to rocky areas, preferably in calm seas. Hook sizes range from N°8 to 3 for whole shrimps and N°16 to 10 for pieces of shrimp.
