Pond Culture of the Mud Crab Scylla serrata (Forskal) Fed Formulated Diet With or Without Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Efficacy of different wet feeds on the growth performance of mud crab Scylla serrata during fattening in cages

“…The present study obtained a slightly similar SGR of 1.07% for crabs that were fed with chicken intestine. Triño et al (2001) obtained a SGR of 1.75 by feeding fish bycatch, but the current study acquired a SGR to the tune of 0.7 with low‐value fish.…”

Mud Crab Aquaculture

“…This finding deserves closer attention as it apparently contradicts the outcome expected from normal male "mate guarding" behaviour-crucially, the survival of each sex in the mixed-sex treatment was not reported. Trials of monosex male and female production of S. serrata show that males and females show similar levels of survival when not mixed together but there are different economic outcomes; depending upon the respective growth rates of males or females (Trino, Millamena, Keenan, 1999;Trino, Millamena, Keenan, 2001) . Interestingly, monosex culture did not improve survival of S. olivacea during fattening in bamboo pens, though this is consistent with the presence of natural mangrove habitat and with the sexes being of similar average weight (Khatun, Kamal, Yi, 2009).…”

Evaluation of limb autotomy as a promising strategy to improve production performances of mud crab ( Scylla olivacea ) in the soft‐shell farming system

“…Like other neighbouring countries, such as Thailand and Myanmar, production of soft-shell mud crabs in the coastal areas of Bangladesh is also a new addition to establish fattening practices for hard-shell crab production (Rahman et al, 2017). In Bangladesh, most of the soft-shell crab farms followed the semi-enclosed system in which the floating individual chamber-based cages were placed inside the coastal brackish water aquaculture ponds (Oesterling, 1988;Trino, Millamena, & Keenan, 2001). The existing semi-enclosed soft-shell crab farming is space-intensive because the intermoult crabs are cultured in individual chamber to avoid their cannibalistic behaviours (reviewed in Tavares, da Silva, Pereira, & Ostrensky, 2018), which ultimately makes the production system less efficient in terms of per unit area.…”