Shrimps are the only marine crustaceans currently farmed along the French coast.

Discover the farming carried out in New Caledonia 

In the nineteen seventies, tests were carried out on the European lobster Homarus Gammarus without any further development.

Another species of crustacean is farmed in the French Overseas Departments and Territories in fresh water : the giant freshwater prawn ( Macrobrachium rosenbergii).