Mud crabs, scientific name Scylla serrata, are known to inhabit in rivers lined with mangroves. These crabs, usually dark brown in color, prefer living in the soft, muddy bottom, just below the tide.

Here is some good news for fisherwomen and Self Help Groups (SHGs) interested in cultivating mud crabs in the mangroves in the district. The Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA ...

Scientists in the Philippines are trying to find another way: sustainable aquaculture using an innovative system of farming mud crabs in enclosures among live mangroves, coastal trees whose lower ...

03/27/2023 March 27, 2023 Mud crabs are a sign of healthy mangroves, but their numbers are decreasing. Restaurant owner Justin Aniere started the first crab hatchery in Africa to reduce ...

Researchers say the loss of large numbers of mud crabs from ecosystems like the Sundarbans mangroves could trigger an ecological imbalance. Bangladesh exported about $35 million worth of crabs in ...

Some fishermen and Yanadi tribes are eking out a livelihood by catching mud crabs in the mangroves, canals and ponds of Nagayalanka, Avanigadda and Machilipatnam mandals in Krishna district.

Rising demand amid shrinking habitat Mud crabs (Scylla serrata) live in mangroves that line the western coast of Madagascar. Their habitat has shrunk over the years, even as demand for crab meat ...

SINGAPORE – In a few years, seafood lovers could be digging into chilli crab and fried soft-shell crabs that come from a mangrove in Brunei. But these mud crabs will be first bred in a lab ...

"If it wasn't for the mangroves ... trees has given fish, crabs and oysters vital shelter to feed and breed in an area where there were previously only arid mud flats. Marine life, and their ...

Crab farming will also help in protecting mangroves as the mud crabs thrive in wetlands. The hatchery can produce one million crablets in a year. Mumbai: Armed with Rs24 crore that the Maharshtra ...