Soft Shell Mud Crabs

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.

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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