Geographical distribution
North Atlantic: Spitzbergen and Greenland south to the North Sea and to Massachusetts (U.S.A.). North Pacific: Bering Sea to S.E. Siberia, Japan and Oregon (U.S.A.).The taxonomic status of the North Pacific form, usually considered a subspecies Pandalus borealis eous Makarov, 1935, is not fully clear yet.

Shrimp - Geographical distribution

Habitat and biology
Depth 20 to 1 330 m.  Bottom clay and mud. Marine.

Size
Maximum total length 120 mm (male), 165 mm (female).

Fisheries
Commercially this is one of the most important carideans of the North Atlantic; only Crangon crangon may be more important. Longhurst (1970:258) called it the principal product of the prawn fisheries of the northwestern Atlantic, being concentrated off Greenland, while in more recent years also more to the south fisheries for the species have started, e.g., in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine (as far south as Gloucester, Mass.). There is an intensive fishery around Iceland and a most important one off the Norwegian coast. In the Kattegat and Skagerak it is fished for by Danish trawlers. In the northern and central North Sea Danish, Norwegian, British, German and Dutch trawlers fish for the species.

Source: FAO