Soft Shell Mud Crab Farming Technology in Asian

This is filmed mainly in Thailand from what I can observe.

It is subtitled to explain the process, but something not explained is why the 2 middle legs are dismembered during the growth phrase ... they subsequently grow back and apparently promotes the molting of the crab's shell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWchNAfRg0o

The Family Farm grows fish in our Ponds, roughly a 9 month cycle.

Also in the same ponds are Prawns/Shrimp, but they are bottom dwellers so their natural habitat is a different strata in the pond. They have about a 3 month growth cycle. The crab farming could fit in there though.

The surface is not utilised so maybe suitable for crabbing. The only downside could be the lower oxygen levels because the ponds rely on the wave action created by the wind and the infrastructure on the surface would limit that interaction. Worth investigating though.

Maybe a good use for the dead fish which die as the oxygen levels plummet during rain events or still nights without wave action. But nothing is wasted at the farm, some of the dead fish are a lucky meal for the Farm dogs but most are retrieved, salted and bottled and sold to the Issan Folk in the area ... apparently they love them.

Sadly the man who runs the Farm now did the marble/ball lottery for the armed services a few weeks back and got selected ... thankfully in the Air Force, so this idea might be a few years away yet.