Of major importance on most of the west coast of Mexico, although locally of secondary importance; fished both inshore and offshore.
Sold fresh, cooked, dry and frozen.In Guatemala it is fished for inshore and offshore. In El Salvador. Penaeus stylirostris is the second most important species, it is caught offshore and inshore. In Honduras the inshore fishery is mostly on juveniles of this species and of Penaeus occidentalis. These two species are also the most important in Costa Rica and Panama. Farther south the importance of the present species diminishes, being evidently replaced by P. occidentalis.