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Fattening experiment with the mangrove crab Scylla serrata in Mtwapa Creek (Kenya) in 2001
Citable as data publication
Reid A.; Daro N.; Ecological Marine Management Programme (ECOMAMA); Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek; Vakgroep Biologie; Faculteit Wetenschappen. VUB: Belgium; (2016): Fattening experiment with the mangrove crab Scylla serrata in Mtwapa Creek (Kenya) in 2001. https://doi.org/10.14284/92
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Description
Data on the farming and fattening of the mangrove crab Scylla serrata during a 43 days experiment in Mtwapa Creek (Kenya) in 2001. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Reid, A. (2002). A community approach to the farming and fattening of the mangrove crab Scylla serrata (Forskal) in Mtwapa Creek on the Kenyan coast. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 93 pp. more

Two crab pens were constructed, the first in a chosen hypothetically optimum site inside the mangrove stand, enclosing mangroves without incurring any damage or destruction, and the second in contrasting conditions in a natural clearance, with no mangrove presence. Crab pen structures were based on traditional tidal fish traps of the area. Results after a 43 day fattening period showed harvested crabs solely from the mangrove integrated pen, of these crabs, all were female, no crabs were recovered from the second pen with no mangal presence. Pen structures proved successful for the mangrove pen, for female crabs, with 100% survival and harvest rates. Furthermore feeding crabs on trash and kitchen waste which was freely available proved viable, female crabs growing an average 2.13g/crab/day. In terms of cost benefit analysis, the mangrove integrated pen proved viable with no capital outlay or operational costs with the exception of labour or man hours, calculated profit levels for female crab fattening was 50%.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Crab fattening, Feeding experiments, Feeding regimes, Mangrove crab, ISW, Kenyan Coast, Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775)

Geographical coverage
ISW, Kenyan Coast Stations [Marine Regions]
Mwtapa Creek

Temporal coverage
20 September 2001 - 1 November 2001

Taxonomic coverage
Scylla serrata (Forskål, 1775) [WoRMS]

Parameters
Carapax width of crabs
Weight

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL), moredata creatordata creator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Ecological Marine Management Programme (ECOMAMA), moredata creator

Publication
Based on this dataset
Reid, A. (2002). A community approach to the farming and fattening of the mangrove crab Scylla serrata (Forskal) in Mtwapa Creek on the Kenyan coast. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 93 pp., more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-19
Information last updated: 2016-03-24
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