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Status of mud crab industry in India
(Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (MPEDA), 2015)
Mud crab is an economically important portunid crab species found in estuaries, coastal lagoons and nearshore waters of India. The genetics team of RGCA recently made an attempt to decipher the taxonomic ambiguity of mud ...
Soft-shell crab production using hatchery-produced mangrove crab Scylla serrata juveniles
(Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (MPEDA), 2015)
Soft-shell crab production is being practiced in many Asian countries but the major source of seedstock is from the wild, which could no longer sustain the increasing demand. Commercial scale soft-shell crab production can ...
Status of mud crab aquaculture in Bangladesh
(Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (MPEDA), 2015)
Bangladesh has about 710 km of coastlines with 618,780 ha of mangrove tidal flats and 80,000 ha of associated areas which are suitable for brackishwater aquaculture. Mud crab culture has been practiced for many years in ...
Status of mud crab industry in Thailand
(Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (MPEDA), 2015)
Mud crab is an economically important crustacean commodity in Thailand due to its high nutritional and market value. All the four species of mud crab, Scylla paramamosain, S. olivacea, S. serrata and S. tranquebarica are ...
Status of mud crab industry in the Philippines
(Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (MPEDA), 2015)
Mud crab farming has long been established in the Philippines. Scylla serrata, S. tranquebarica and S. olivacea are the common species found in the Philippines. S. serrata is the preferred species for farming by crab ...
Mud crab nursery rearing practices
(Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (MPEDA), 2015)
The need for seeds for expansion of the mud crab industry led to the development of the hatchery technology. The nursery technology was developed as this served as a link between the hatchery, which produces megalopae or ...