BLUE SWIMMING CRAB MEAT ( Portunus pelagicus Linnaeus ),Vietnam SEATASTE price supplier

Blue Swimmer Crabs are widely distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacificregion from east Africa to Japan, Tahiti and northern New Zealand.  They are alsopresent in the Mediterranean Sea.  In Australia, Blue Swimmer Crabs inhabit coastalwaters from the south coast of New South Wales, up and around to Perth in WesternAustralia.

They live in a wide range of inshore and continental shelf areas,including sandy, muddy or algal and seagrass habitats from the intertidal zone to at least50 metres in depth.  They move to deeper water as they age and in response to changesin water temperature and inshore salinity.

Blue Swimmer crabs are active swimmers, but when they are inactive theyusually bury themselves in the bottom sediment, leaving only their eyes, antennae and gillchamber opening exposed.

Blue Swimmer Crabs form breeding pairs and mating takes place during thelate summer (January to March) moult of the females.  Mature males moult some weeksbefore the maturing females and each carries a female clasped beneath him for 4 to 10 daysbefore she moults.  Mating occurs immediately after the female has moulted and whenher shell is still soft. 

Female crabs spawn up to 2 million eggs per batch.  Blue Swimmer crabeggs and larvae are planktonic.  The eggs hatch after about 15 days at 24°C watertemperature.  During the larval stage, the crabs may drift as far as 80 kilometresout to sea before returning to inshore waters to settle.

Inshore areas of southern Middle areas account for approximately half of thecommercial catch in Vietnam. Blue Swimmer Crabs form a significantpart of the by catch of many Prawn trawlers.

There has been successful attempts at culturing Blue Swimmer Crabs in Vietnam.  The species is cultured in Japan and other Asian countries.

Nutritional Information
For every 100 grams raw product
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