Editing Caridea (section)

==Commercial fishing==
{{See also|Shrimp fishery}}

[[File:Wild caridean shrimp capture time series.png|upright=1.4|thumb|Global wild capture, 1950–2010, in tonnes, of caridean shrimp<ref name=faostat>Based on data sourced from the [http://faostat.fao.org/site/629/default.aspx FishStat database], FAO.</ref>]]

The most significant commercial species among the carideans is ''[[Pandalus borealis]]'',<ref>[http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/3425/en ''Pandalus borealis'' (Krøyer, 1838)] FAO, Species Fact Sheet. Retrieved September 2012.</ref> followed by ''[[Crangon crangon]]''.<ref>[http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/3435/en ''Crangon crangon'' (Linnaeus, 1758)] FAO, Species Fact Sheet. Retrieved September 2012.</ref> The wild-capture production of ''P.&nbsp;borealis'' is about ten times that of ''C.&nbsp;crangon''. In 1950, the position was reversed, with the capture of ''C.&nbsp;crangon'' about ten times that of ''P.&nbsp;borealis''.<ref name=faostat />

In 2010, the global aquaculture of all shrimp and prawn species (3.5 million tonnes) slightly exceeded the global wild capture (3.2 million tonnes).<ref name=faostat /> No carideans were significantly involved in aquaculture, but about 430,000 tonnes were captured in the wild. That is, about 13% of the global wild capture, or about 6% of the total production of all shrimp and prawns, were carideans.<ref name=faostat />