There are four species of mud crab, Scylla serrata, S. tranquebarica, S. paramamosain and S. olivacea that are the focus of both commercial fisheries and aquaculture production throughout their ...

Along Vietnam’s southern coastline, mud crabs are raised in brackish mangrove ponds that use natural tidal flows. Farmers ...

JOYMONI, Bangladesh - Kishore Mondol, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southern Bangladesh, points at the four-foot-high platform of gray clay he and his wife have just struggled to build. The ...

Since April, Lummi Nation natural resources staff have headed into the mud, week after week, to capture European green crabs in small metal traps. It’s part of an intensive effort to eradicate the ...

Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that ...

Pinpointing urine compounds for the first time that make mud crabs hide for their lives, if blue crabs pee nearby, opens new doors to understanding how chemicals invisibly regulate marine wildlife.

A recent decision by the Malagasy government to grant permits to export live mud crabs to five Chinese companies has sparked controversy and highlighted the country’s struggle to sustainably manage an ...

The Northern Territory's mud crab industry will not supply crabs to the market this Christmas after a decision to close its fisheries for three months. It came after a harvest strategy assessment ...