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Isn’t the Plural of “shrimp”, “SHRIMP”????

[Renfield]

The plural of shrimp of an individual species is “shrimp”. The plural of shrimp species is “shrimps”.

[NativeSon]

The way I read it, “shrimps” is meant to include other members of the suborder Caridea, and not more than one shrimp on the bah-beee.

[dangus]

Not necessarily. My preference is to use “shrimps” when I mean to enumerate a discrete quantity, and shrimp solely as a collective noun, but both “shrimps” and “shrimp” are acceptable plurals.

In this case, I think the author uses “shrimps,” because he is speaking of multiple populations of shrimp, just as one might use “sands.”

[mothball]

Down here in the south, it’s pronounced, swumps.

[kabumpo]

Yes, the plural of shrimp is shrimp. As is deer, deer.