Coastal Aquaculture and Mariculture

Unit 6- Crustaceans

6.3.5. Management
Species and sizes that are not suitable for human consumption are often discarded in the sea. The crab fishery shows an overall improvement in all the maritime states of India. This is due to the utilization of C. feriatus for human consumption in the recent years. The improvement in the catches is the result of expansion of the fishing activity to deeper waters by fishermen engaged in multi- day fishing. However, in order to sustain the crab fishery, it is necessary to increase the cod-end mesh size of trawl nets to 40 row and above.