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Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Indo-Pacific swamp crab (Scylla serrata) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [1]Scylla serrata (often called mud crab or mangrove crab, although both terms are highly ambiguous, and black crab) is an ecologically important species of crab found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Scylla tranquebarica is a species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. Scylla tranquebarica , one of several crabs known as the mud crab , is found in mangrove areas from Pakistan and Taiwan to the Malay Archipelago and other Indo-Pacific regions.
Scylla olivacea, commonly known as the orange mud crab, is a commercially important species of mangrove crab in the genus Scylla. It is one of several crabs known as the mud crab and is found in mangrove areas from Southeast Asia to Pakistan , and from Japan to northern Australia .
In the 1960s, crabs of the Scylla genus, which had previously been opportunistically farmed in milkfish ponds, began to be more actively managed, being deliberately fenced into fish ponds. Economic benefits were limited by the high cost of feeding meat to crabs. Farming crabs within natural mangrove forests is one method used to reduce overhead ...
Small crab boat in harbour at A Illa de Arousa, Galicia, Spain. Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs. True crabs make up 20% of all crustaceans caught and farmed worldwide, with about 1.4 million tonnes being consumed annually. The horse crab, Portunus trituberculatus, accounts for one quarter of that total.
It carries out a special program for "queen" or "gravid" crabs designed to ensure the sustainability of the industry in the province, which originally owned the "crab capital of the Philippines" title. The province's mud crab industry is focusing on the production of female crabs that play an important role in marketing, particularly in Asian ...
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Scylla is a genus of swimming crabs, comprising four species, [1] of which S. serrata is the most widespread. They are found across the Indo-West Pacific . [ 2 ] The four species are: [ 3 ] [ 1 ]