Abstract
Mud crab culture or crab fattening in brackish water wetlands of coastal West Bengal locally known as Chamber chas was initiated in the Sundarban coast since 1990s. Two species, viz., Scylla serrata and Scylla tranquebarica are reared in small and medium sized brackish water ponds for a period of about 18 days, using undersized and discarded crabs, mainly with help of household manpower to earn their living in this region. This is briefly reviewed herein to highlight the crab fattening enterprise and to promote the mud crab aquaculture so that the dependency on capture fishing may be reduced especially from mangrove tigerland of Sundarban, West Bengal.
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