Overview
This project aimed to commence diet development research for mud crabs in Australia, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Mud crab farming is well established throughout South-East Asia with most mud crab farmers using trash fish, bivalve meats or animal by-products as feeds. This traditional feeding practice is unsustainable and the development of low-cost, formulated diets for grow-out is viewed as a priority research issue.
Project outcomes
- Evaluated the potential of formulated feeds to replace traditional diets used in mud crab aquaculture.
- Determined critical nutritional requirements and evaluate key feed ingredients.
- Formulated and evaluate improved mud crab diets.
Key partners
Gondol Research Institute for Mariculture
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Research Institute for Aquaculture No. 3
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Final report FIS/2000/065
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