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Bait for Catching Mud Crabs


In Indonesia Mud Crab or Scylla Serrata are easy to catch in a mud crab pot (top left) available from your fishing tackle shop. The best bait for mud crab is whole mullet (score the flesh down the the bone five times on each side), or chicken carcus or chicken knecks and set from a rope with float to mark the location. For best results, place in a river overnight boarded with mangroves not too far from the shore or off a jetty with oyster covered rocks underneath.


Check with your local fisheries department for bag limits and minimum sizes. In Queensland Mud Crabs are plentiful and easy enough to find in restaurants and at fish markets, but really easy to catch too so give it a shot.


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Selecting a Mud Crab


At least a kilogram in weight is best.
Only select a male mud crab as the females breed more for the future.
To determine the sex of a mud crab, look for the pointed shape on it's belly (pictures above left) in contrast to a half moon shape for females (pictured at bottom of the page).
If buying from your fish market, buy them live and ensure the shell and claws aren't damaged or legs missing.
Handling a Live Mud Crab - You don't want the crab to bite you as they have very powerful claws. They are easy enough to pick up - with your thumb and index finer hold together the base of the back two swimmer legs and lift the crab up. That way it can't bite you.


Killing a Live Mud Crab - To humanely kill a mud crab in a way that doesn't stress them and effect the flavor of the meat, place the crab in your freezer for up to 1 hour.


Cleaning a Mud Crab


Clean the outside of the mud crab with a brush under running water.
If you want to keep the top shell to place back on the crab when you plate it up, lift the flap on it's belly and pull the top shell from the back of the crab forward, then halve the crab with a knife. Or simply turn the crab upside down and halve with a knife as pictured above right.
Remove the legs and claws from the body.
Remove the guts and feathery lungs from the body.
Brush out any muck from the inside of the crab.
Crack the shells of each portion before cooking to let the flavors in (one tap on each with a knife sharpening steel will do the trick).
Cooking Mud Crabs - Mud Crab Recipes


Writing the mud crab book for your kitchen comes down to adapting these simple recipes to suit. The most often asked for are chili mud crabs recipes. There are so many other flavors you can enhance mud crab with, just don't overpower it as the taste of the mud crab flesh by itself cooked plain is divine.


Traditional Mud Crab Recipie


Boiled Whole Mud Crab


Bring a large pot of water to the boil, add a teaspoon of sea-salt and place the whole mud crab in and boil for 10-12 minutes.
Remove and place in a sink of cold water to cool.
Then follow the cleaning a mud crab instructions above.
Note when boiling a whole mud crab, ensure there are no cracks in the shell or broken legs that would let water into the crab.

Mud Crabs Chilli Cream


Ingredients (serves 2):


1 Live mud crab
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Teaspoon each of finely chopped chilli and garlic
200ml cream


Method for Coking Mud Crabs


Buy live, kill, add to pot of boiling water (or steam).
When cooked, remove legs and claws, then split body in 2 and remove guts and lungs.
Then break claws, legs with back of knife so juices can get in.
To saucepan add garlic, chilli and olive oil.
Add crab pieces and coat in favors.
Add cream, cover and cook a few minutes - stirring occasionally.


Serve and enjoy.


Mud Crabs in Stock


Ingredients (serves 2):


1 Live mud crab
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup white wine
1 tins whole peeled or diced tomatoes
2 teaspoons each finely chopped garlic, ginger and chilli or to taste


Method for Cooking Mud Crabs


Buy live, kill then clean mud crabs.
In a large saucepan or pot with lid place garlic, ginger and chili
Then add chicken stock and wine
Then add whole peeled tomatoes (including the juice)
Bring near boil with lid on
Add cleaned and prepared mud crab pieces
Replace lid, simmer for 10 minutes


When mud crabs are done, remove crab pieces with tongs into serving bowl. Include on the table a bowl for shell scraps and napkins. Eat with your hands digging crab meat out with the tip of a crab leg or fork prong.


For best results, a few beers or glasses of wine should be consumed by the chef and guest while cooking the mud crab. I also recommend a dozen oysters to share while you cook. I guarantee that once you have eaten mud crab cooked this way, there will be absolutely no crab meat left anywhere in any piece of crab shell. You will dig out every last little tasty bit.

Stretching local and international market demand of fish kerapu (Grouper ) now increasing. One measure is the selling price of these reef fish are increasingly high. Imagine, one kg of duck or mouse grouper fish consumption size (about 500 grams per fish) at the level of farmers worth up to U.S. $ 48 - $ 52 per kg. For the tiger grouper, it costs USD 90-130 thousand per kg.

Although commodity prices of sea fish was very tempting, but the development of grouper fish cultivation in Indonesisa still underdeveloped. According to researchers from the Institute for Public Service grouper Aquaculture Karawang in West Java, Muh Abdul Rahman, hatchery technology for grouper new mass developed in the last fifteen years. "There are still many things that have not mastered the technology,
More Graduates Post-Graduate Institute Pertanian Bogor (IPB) is of the opinion, hatchery technology is not a major problem of farmers is often the seed. The issue that often arises is the stability of sales both in the amount of absorption of low seed and the selling price continues to decline. "Beginning in 2010 the price of tiger grouper fingerlings range from Rp 1,100 per head, but today only around Rp 700 per fish,
He considered, this occurs because the seedling growth was not balanced development of magnifying. As a result, sometimes a lot of seeds produced by society can not be absorbed by the farmers.
Participate opinion about the constraints expressed by the Chairman of the Forum Communications Kerapu Lampung, Build Sitepu. For Wake, the main obstacle pembenih grouper is operating capital in the business cultivation is high. According to him, the bank is "cautious" in giving credit to pembenih.
Wake up rate, it was thought that the fish farmers equated with fishermen who always helped so no feed back (reciprocal) for banks. "Actually, one thing to remember, people who do not have the capital he might not be a grouper fish farmers, as most who play in the grouper have other income sources," he said firmly.
From here Wake up expecting any breakthrough into banking, because the business opportunity is still quite large. "Now it is generally farmers rearing grouper only fill 40% of the total mapped Keramba cage (KJA) and 60% are still empty," he said.

Low Production
Not only pembenih who feel the lack of capital, farmers also feel the same magnification. This is stated by Ahmad Haerudin, cultivators in the Island Grill kerpau Thousand Islands district of Jakarta. Another problem is the supply of seeds that are still lacking.
This condition was recognized by Rahman. He judged the cause of low seed production of grouper fish from hatcheries (hatchery), among others, because of the nature of cannibals that much happening on stage juvenile (post-rearing the larvae) until the seeds are ready to stocking.
In addition, continued Rahman, SR (Survival Rate / survival rate) for grouper hatchery (hatchery) is also lower than when the enlargement, they are vulnerable to environmental changes. "Coupled with the mastery of hatchery technology that has not really steady," he said.
Rahman explains, today generally duck and tiger grouper hatchery average SR of 10% per cycle. Although SR grouper hatchery low, but still profitable (see table analysis of the business).
The same thing is said Wake. "SR at the hatchery is lower than the enlargement due to many factors, such as small fish, feed quality should be good, its durability is still lacking, so easily affected by death," he said
He pointed out, the vessel volume of 10 tons of 100 000 eggs filled grains, could survive 2-5% of total eggs that hatched just been great. "In fact sometimes fail all, therefore, need careful calculation of the technicians," added the man who had started the business in early 2010 kerpu seeding this.
Wake added that in general the issue is not as difficult as grouper seed first. "In eastern Indonesia now many hatcheries. Not like before, only Situbondo East Java and Bali alone, "said Wake. According to Rahman, for Situbondo and Bali could produce grouper seed duck 100 thousand - 150 thousand heads (size 5 cm), while for tiger grouper seed to produce between 1.5 - 2.5 million individuals per month.
Rahman added, for business ducks rearing grouper grouper production cost of about USD 125 thousand per head (average size of 500 grams). This means with grouper harag duck until Rp 500 thousand per kgnya, can dihuting keuntungnya. "Break-even value for the business of rearing grouper can be achieved with a minimum of 60% at harvest SR

White snapper, this type of fish caught are rarely heard in the wet market. But believe me, this perch has enough pre-eminent name in the export market, especially if already present on the table in a restaurant or market Gedongan fillet (pure meat). The price could reach U.S. $ 13 to 15 per kg. 
Global market demand is quite high, especially Australia and the United States. Seeing the huge market potential was not surprising that the PT Fega Marikultura that in 1984 to 2003, shrimp cultivation, is now fully entering the cultivation and white snapper. 
Bambang Wahjudi, Site Manager of PT Fega Marikultura (Fega) , by utilizing the infrastructure and facilities used shrimp farming company founded by Family Alisyahbanas (Sofjan Alisyahbana, Alisyahbana Supiah Tifah L., Iskandar Alisyahbana and Sutan Takdir Alisyahbana) with this Martati Kartomadiprodjo began to seriously wrestle fish culture better known by the name of this baramundi. Operational marine fish culture is centered on the island in the waters of the Thousand Islands Jukung DKI Jakarta Province. 
Bambang, who every day are in Jukung further explain, the cultivation process from egg white snapper until ready to harvest takes no less than 2 years. But because Fega has since been implementing sustainable farming periodically, then a week to two crops. 
Average per week Fega can harvest 15-20 tonnes of white snapper size over 2 kg per tail. White snapper ready for harvest later processed into fillet of fish processing companies that are still a group with Fega. Snapper fillet that is then exported to foreign countries. 
According to Bambang, to meet the business scale, cultivation of white snapper not balanced when the volume of the final product was limited to a few tons. This is because the production costs and energy required for cultivation of one or two tons will be no different from that of 10 tons or above. "So there is a minimum limit that must be our target to achieve production

How to eat crab has long expired. You do not have to fight for the sake of mengkorek-match shell out the meat. Instead, the shell can be eaten.
These crabs are often referred to as soft-shelled crabs / soft (soft shell). All parts are edible crab's body, including a hard shell. The fact that no doubt make a rising popularity of soft-shelled crabs.
Demand continues to soar even though the price is quite high. Price per kilo can reach about USD 60 thousand. However, this dish has not been widely available in restaurants aquatic food presenter.

The supply of soft-shelled crabs are still low because the business has not developed its cultivation. The reason is constrained by seed who had only rely on the natural catchment. Nevertheless, the cultivation of soft-shelled crabs still save a great opportunity. Especially with the increasingly growing fan Mr. crab from day to day.

Aquaculture Engineering Products
Apart from the problem of seeds, cultivation of soft-shelled crabs have begun to be developed in some coastal areas in the country. One of them in Sidoarjo, East Java. Is the cultivation of teachers at the Academy of Fishery Sidoarjo (APS), which started to develop cultivation techniques.
Crab is basically an engineering culture that produces products with skin crab (shell / carapace) is soft. According to the Chairman of the Cultivation Department of APS, Moh. Zainal Arifin, the point is to harvest the crabs that are kept during molting (moulting).
This type of crab that is brought up mud crab. Zainal said, at least there are 3 types of mud crabs which have high economic value such as Scylla serrata, Scylla oceanica, and Scylla transquebarica.
Of these three types of crab, Scylla serrata at the same age are generally smaller than the two other types. But in terms of price and demand, Scylla serrata species shown to be superior.
He further explained, experimental cultivation technique of soft-shelled crabs are applied in the practice of cultivating land area of ​​17.5 hectares owned by the AP using a floating cage system. ? We'll make like a basket floating by making small-boxed boxed to put a crab or commonly called pond battery

Each cage, he went on, is hung on the lane ropes are made elongated in accordance with the size of the pond. Cage position parallel to the surface of the water. The ideal pond water depth of about 1 meter. Cage made of bamboo tied with ropes by using nets sekatan

Basket size is 1 meter long and 50 cm wide, with a depth of 15 cm. One cage partitioned into 18 plots with each plot measuring length, width and within 15 cm. One map load to maintain a crab with a water depth of 10 cm. Pattern maintenance sekatan system is quite effective, given the nature of the cannibalistic crabs have high enough.
With the size of APS-owned farms that used an area of ​​4 thousand square meters, can be made around 750 cages. That is, with a pond area that can maintain not less than 13 thousand head crab. Cost to make a cage around USD 100 thousand. The average size of crabs that are kept 100 grams per cow or 1 kg of 10 to 12 tails.
Crab seeds purchased from fishermen at a price of about USD 15 thousand per kg. Before beginning to be kept in cages, first done cutting the crab body by removing a pair of tweezers and 3 pairs of legs of the road. ? Engineering is done to stimulate the molting process

Goby (Oxyeleotris marmorata) is the name of a type of freshwater fish. Although somewhat rare large, fish that spread in Southeast Asia to islands of this archipelago anglers favored because betotan (pull) them a strong and sudden.
Other names in various regions in Indonesia are bakut, bakutut, belosoh (common name), Boso, boboso, bodobodo, fish, stupid, stupid cork, ketutuk, lazy fish, fish and other ghosts. In English is called marble or marble goby sleeper, referring to the color patterns on its body similar reddish marble

Small to medium-bodied fish with a large head. Body length (SL, standard length) to a maximum of about 65 cm, but mostly between 20-40 cm or less. Dull brick red, brown or blackish, with dark symmetrical patterns on his body. Without a round spot (ocellus) on base of its tail. 
Dorsal fin (back) of the face with six spokes that hard (thorn), and that the rear with one spine and nine soft fingers. Anal fin with one spine and 7-8 soft fingers. The scales in the middle of the back, from the back of the head to the base of the dorsal fin (predorsal scales) 60-65 fruits. The scales on the side of the body, along the lateral line (lateral row scales) 80-90 fruits. 
As reflected by its name, this fish is lazy to move or migrate. He tends to dwell only in the bottom waters, even harassed. Only at night goby somewhat active, chasing shrimp, small fish, crab, or a slug of water. Goby fish found in rivers in a protected section, swamps, dams, waterways or ditches.

Muara Angke is a fishing boat or fishing port in Jakarta. Marked with the operation of supporting the needs of the fishermen as the fish auction (structures and facilities) in addition to the prevalence of a dealer who managed a Syahbandar. By administrative rule, is located in the village of Muara Angke Kapuk Muara, Penjaringan District, North Jakarta district. Its location adjacent to the Muara Karang.
Although known to many people in Jakarta as a fishing village, and harbor fish auction place and a place to eat grilled fish, but other potential Muara Angke store. In this area, there are Muara Angke Wildlife Refuge, an area covering 25.02 hectares of mangrove forests inhabited by no fewer than 90 species of birds.
Muara Angke is part of the last remaining mangrove forest in the provinces of DKI Jakarta. -Kapok Angke forest area consisting of Muara Angke Wildlife Reserve, Protected Forest and Nature Park Angke Kapok is the last mangrove forest that can be found in Jakarta. This forest area has a total area of about 170.60 ha.


Muara Angke is the area downstream and the estuary of the Kali Angke. While the time or the river is expected to be named after a warlord kingdom of Banten, namely Tubagus Angke (Tuba or Ratu is a title of nobility kingdom of Banten).
Around the beginning of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Banten to send troops to help the kingdom of Demak was pounding the Portuguese fort at Sunda Kelapa (now Jakarta). River where the troops stationed Tubagus Angke later known as Kali Angke and the area located on the edge of the river is called Muara Angke.
Another opinion expressed by Alwi Shahab, one of the authors and Betawi culture. According to him, the word "Angke" comes from the Hokkien language, namely "ang" meaning red and "to" which means river or times. This is related to events in 1740, when the Dutch massacred 10,000 people in Glodok Chinese, which makes the color of the water which was originally clear Kali Angke become red with blood. However, according to the Betawi culture Ridwan Saidi, said "Angke" comes from the Sanskrit word, "Anke", which means the times that deep.

Facilities

Muara Angke now famous as a place selling fresh fish and grilled fish in Jakarta. Indeed, here there are facilities where fish landing and auction, and also the fish market.
Grilled fish restaurant became available around 1994, when RM (restaurant) Fuel and RM Ray Fish Estuary is present here. Since then, this place is becoming known food lovers to get a fresh grilled fish, delicious and relatively cheap. Grilled fish restaurant now has many, but its unique restaurants are only providing services to cook fish. Visitors must buy their own fish at the fish market nearby, and then handed it over to the restaurant to be processed: baked, fried and others as you wish. Unfortunately, fresh fish traders are often not honest in the scales.
In the area of ​​65 hectares there are also centers of Traditional Fishery Products Processing (PHPT). Various kinds of salted fish, evaporation and the resulting smoke here. In addition to the processing and drying of fish, in this section there are also several shops selling dried fish in bulk and retail. Some salted fish produced are sent between islands or exported.
Fishing settlement located on the west and south. Most fishing boats are propped up along the banks of Kali Angke in western and southern region. Fishing boats dock and pond trials found in the north. In addition, in this region there is also the apartment complex for the fishermen, bus terminals and public transportation, and retail outlets (public refueling stations).
For the people of Jakarta, the names of regions Muara Angke, North Jakarta, is not foreign. Both as a port where fishing boats and all-round eating the catch of fishermen. From baronang fish species, snapper, squid, shrimp, until the mussels. Visitors to shop alone at the same time freely choosing the desired fish. Problem is guaranteed affordable price.
To enter Rp2.000 charge for private vehicles. The atmosphere in the crowded region. Some fishermen are lower fish catches. Traders mussels, shrimp and crab offer price to every visitor who passes. All kinds of fish that was held still looks fresh and big.
Log into deeper areas, visitors will see the brains of fish traders who hold wares on the roadside. They seemed busy burning. Prices of food wrapped in banana leaves is relatively cheap. Rp600 per shoot. The more delicious when eaten with their homemade sauce.
Restaurants have a place and the gate itself. Written, "Welcome Center Multipurpose Fish Snack." In that place free visitor ate the fish as desired. Not to be confused to find a place. Already there are traders who immediately greeted and led to where he is selling. There is no compulsion. Visitors were given a referral.
Do not feel strange if all the restaurants are all typical behalf of South Sulawesi. There is a restaurant called the City of Makassar, Losari, Maros, and Pangkep. Understandably, most traders and fishermen are generally derived from the Bugis-Makassar.
As a member of the entourage, we chose a place in a restaurant named Losari, Makassar. The smell of grilled fish smoke in the vicinity of the location of visitors appetizing that I wanted to eat it.
Actually not hard-tough visit to Muara Angke. For those who have personal vehicles, cars can drive through the highway, then exit at the toll booth Pluit. From there, the distance to the Muara Angke about 4 kilometers. Or from the main road towards Pluit Grogol. As for visitors who choose to go with public transport, can directly down at Terminal Muara Angke.
Sabrin, a local trader said, Muara Angke as a place to "feast of grilled fish" has been around since the early 1990s. When it was still quiet. Because, first of Muara Angke better known simply as a port for fishermen over fishing in the sea. Also as the fish auction place.
Because the number of visitors from year to year more and more, finally made the stalls for visitors. That's where visitors can relax while eating fish, especially grilled fish.
Delay time, precisely since 1994, the district of Muara Angke began bustling. Especially in 1996 when President Suharto launched a movement to eat fish. Not only are residents of Jakarta, the immigrant population and many tourists visit and enjoy grilled fish in that place. Even businessmen and politicians too often come.
Visitors are not required to buy fish at a local restaurant. There are fish markets that were located not far from restaurants. Visitors are free to choose the desired fish. About the price are also free trade.
On price, depending on supply transaction. Rabbitfishes, the market price of Rp20 thousand sekilonya, in Muara Angke be worth Rp10 thousand per kilo. The concept of free choice and that's shopping himself, the impression most felt if the visit to Muara Angke.
"Visitors are free to choose and buy their own type of fish you want. Waiter stall just burn and cook as desired visitors. Visitors who choose to own more of the desired species of fish rather than chosen by the diner waitress, "Sabrin said.
To relax and relieve fatigue, Muara Angke deserved a choice.