Is shrimp an insect or a fish?
                                
                                
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                                Over 67,000 species make up the diverse group of crustaceans to which shrimp belong. This often-debated topic asks: is shrimp an insect or a fish? The simple biological answer is that they are neither, but are in fact, crustaceans.