Pandalus borealis

Pandalus borealis

The Eismeergarnele ( Pandalus borealis, Pandalus eous sometimes ) is a shrimp, which is found in the northern parts of the Atlantic and Pacific and belongs to the family of deep-sea shrimp.

The Eismeergarnele is an economically important marine animals and is caught as food since the early 20th century Norway, but also in other regions. In the food trade, the name Greenland Shrimp is often used.

The distribution ranges from New England on the Canadian east coast, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Norway and the North Sea to the south in the English Channel. In the Pacific, it is ahead of Japan, south to take in the Okhotsk Sea, the Bering Strait and in North America to the U.S. state of Washington. Arctic Sea shrimp live at depths between 10 and 500 meters, on muddy soft bottoms, in water temperatures between 2 and 14 ° C. Arctic Sea shrimp can grow up to twelve inches long and three to four years old.

Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase ( SAP), is an enzyme used in molecular biology and derived from Pandalus borealis. Chitin of the body armor can be further processed to chitosan or glucosamine.