

That’s why there are so many farmers show interest in farming these two types of crab species. They are high in marked demand and sold in quite higher prices compared with other types of crabs. They are popular because of the quality of the taste, meat, and size. These two crabs are edible and often used for commercial purposes.

They are two most popular types of crabs that often being consumed by people around the world are the green mud crabs and the red claw crabs. It uses large tanks located in the greenhouse and the crabs are supplied with food sources as well as nutrients.

This is one of the best ways to raise crabs since this system minimizing the use of natural water resource. Based on that system alone, this kind of crab and fish farming is the most toxic one compared with the rest of the crab farming system. This system uses net or large cage to keep the crabs in high densities. The crabs are feed on abundant artificial food sources. This kind of system basically built culverts which used to link water and the crabs from a nearby stream and then allow these crabs to growing up in a closed system. It is also one of the oldest types to farm crabs beginning since 17 th century. The size of the ponds should be large since it need to be designed to support higher density of the live stock. This kind of system duplicates a fish habitat on an inland site. This is the most basic type of crab farming as well as the oldest.
