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Instance segmentation (YOLO11n-seg) obtains prawn head and abdomen masks. A skeleton-based procedure combining Zhang\u2013Suen thinning, branch pruning, and graph-based path extraction obtains the projected body centerline for curved length measurement, while a curvature index quantifies body curvature. Body mass prediction models are built for side-view and top-view data, with SHAP analysis interpreting feature contributions. A unified random forest model using consistent morphological features enables body mass prediction across side-view and top-view samples. When evaluated against the independently acquired manual two-segment reference, the skeleton-based method achieved an MAE of 0.399 cm for severely curved prawns, representing reductions of 70.3%, 66.0%, and 21.9% relative to the straight-line method, MBR method, and Zhang\u2013Suen baseline, respectively. On an independent test set, side-view and top-view models achieved mean absolute percentage errors of 5.73% and 5.82%, respectively. The unified RF model achieved an overall MAPE of 5.54%, and paired comparisons did not detect statistically significant differences from the corresponding viewpoint-specific models on either test subset. 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