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Best Choices-Crab


	Seafood Info: Crab

Harvesting Method:

Wild mud crabs can be fished by basket, hand net, trawling net, or even bare hands. Crab farming is now developing and moving rapidly towards sustainability.

Features:
Crabs posess a broad, rather round, upper carapace and a small abdomen tucked beneath the body living in marine, brackish, or freshwater. Though they differ from species to species in size, shape, colour and structure, they closely resemble each other in general morphology and biology.

Conservation Status: Good
Local Name: Ketam

Current Situation
Overfishing, upgraded catching technique and environmental pollution has led to dwindling numbers of wild mud crab. More emphasis is now on the farming of mud crabs to meet the demand without further diminishing local populations. There is however also a problem with scarceity of seed stock, which may be compounded by seed collection from the wild to stock crab farms. However there have been reports of seed production within Malaysia, enabling healthy production of mud crab without affecting wild populations.

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