The production of mudcrab has traditionally been undertaken only in bamboo or net-fenced brackishwater ponds. Now, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (Seafdec/AQD) has been promoting net enclosures in mangroves or tidal zones. The new project, which provide a bigger aquaculture technologies generated by Seafdec through its Technology Verification and Extension Project (TVE), aims to intensify production, profitability, as well as sustainability.

Seafdec boosts pen culture of mucrabs in mangroves. (1999, November 12). Daily Informer, pp. B1, B4.