With the improvement of people‘s living standards, the aquatic leisure food market represented by shrimp has shown a vibrant scene. Shrimp leisure food is a fast-moving consumer product made from high protein and low fat shrimp such as seawater shrimp and freshwater shrimp. The development of the nutritional, functional and healthy snack foods of shrimp through storage technology, pretreatment technology, steaming technology, drying technology, preservation technology, by-product utilization, processing technology and other technologies, have broad development prospects.The shrimp snack food industry needs to seek development in basic research and technological innovation, production processes and equipment, market innovation, and demand orientation,and branding, lifestyle, convenience, and personalization are the key to the survival and development of shrimp snack foods.[Chinese Fishery Quality and Standards,2024,14(3):49-54]