Mud Crab Aquaculture

Paterson, Brian

doi:10.1002/9781444341775.ch4

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“…; Mwaluma ; Shelley ; Primavera et al . ; Paterson & Mann ; Shelley & Lovatelli ). However, in recent years, industrial scale swimming crab production has focused on closed production systems (Kennedy & Cronin ; Gaudé & Anderson ).…”

Section: Soft‐shell Swimming Crab Farming Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite this, the full cycle of crabs production, exclusively from aquaculture, is still an incipient activity worldwide (Zohar et al . ; Igarashi ; Paterson & Mann ; Azra & Ikhwanuddin ).…”

Section: Soft‐shell Swimming Crab Farming Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of the main difficulties to accomplish the full closure of Portunidae cultivation cycle are the mass mortality events during larviculture trials (Azra & Ikhwanuddin ) which are probably caused by technical inadequacy of farming systems (Paterson & Mann ); high rates of cannibalism due to high storage densities (Mann et al . ; Azra & Ikhwanuddin ); and the need for better matching of nutritional requirements for cultivation species and stages (Keenan & Blackshaw ; Geoff & Fielder ; Paterson & Mann ; Azra & Ikhwanuddin ).…”

Section: Soft‐shell Swimming Crab Farming Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During the captivity period, crabs can be fed with a wide variety of food items, including pieces of fresh fish, mussels, shrimp fragments, small bivalves, animal skins and entrails, and even formulated shrimp feeds (Shelley & Lovatelli ). Food is usually offered every 2 or 3 days at a ratio of approximately 2–8% of the total biomass of stored crabs or until satiety (Keenan & Blackshaw ; Kennedy & Cronin ; Paterson & Mann ; FAO, ).…”

Section: Soft‐shell Swimming Crab Farming Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although less than 714 species of Portunidae (GBIF, ) are known, only a few species of swimming crabs are regularly marketed as soft‐shell crabs in the world (Kennedy & Cronin ). Species such as Scylla serrata (Paterson & Mann ; Shelley & Lovatelli ; Hasan & Zafar ), Portunus pelagicus (Azra & Ikhwanuddin ) and Callinectes sapidus (Oesterling ), are the most cultivated mainly because of their abundance and cultivation simplicity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Systems and techniques used in the culture of soft‐shell swimming crabs

Silva¹,

Pereira

Ostrensky³

2017

Reviews in Aquaculture

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The academic interest in the production of soft‐shell swimming crabs has increased in direct proportion to the increasing demand worldwide for this gastronomic delicacy. The techniques of obtaining this product are essentially based on the maintenance of swimming crabs at premoult stage in open, semi‐closed or closed farming systems, until the moment of moulting. These different types of systems reflect the biological e environmental control method evolution. To achieve industrial scale production of soft swimming crabs, the option of using closed systems has increased in recent years. This type of system offers several advantages, such as greater control over environmental variables, greater ease of installation, higher storage densities, greater ease of monitoring ecdysis occurrence and, especially, the possibility of incorporating several forms of automation. In this review, the main production systems currently used, as well as the main techniques for obtaining the animals, their management under controlled conditions, harvesting and slaughter, are presented and discussed, focusing on future perspectives for the world production of soft‐shell swimming crabs.

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Section: Soft‐shell Swimming Crab Farming Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Soft‐shell Swimming Crab Farming Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%