{"id":7225,"date":"2012-11-13T17:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:13:09","slug":"culture-of-blue-swimming-crab-portunus-pelagicus-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=7225","title":{"rendered":"Culture of blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0Proyrat Chaowajaroenpong and Ong-art Kumprasert (Thailand)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The culture of blue swimming crab, <em>Portunus pelagicus<\/em> is carried out in earthen ponds. Appropriate water salinity for the blue swimming crab culture ranges from 20-30 g\/l. Crabs are fed trash fish which is usually offered twice\/day throughout the growing season that extends to about 6 months. \u00a0In the local Thai markets, the average market price is about 180 Baht\/kg (about US$6\/kg).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0We decided not to watermark the photos in order not to upset its clarity. However, we trust you will notify us if you wish to use a picture or more. This will be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Blue-swimming-crab-Thailand.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7228\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=7228\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Blue-swimming-crab-Thailand.jpg?fit=379%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"379,302\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Blue swimming crab (Thailand)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Blue-swimming-crab-Thailand.jpg?fit=379%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7228\" title=\"Blue swimming crab (Thailand)\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Blue-swimming-crab-Thailand-300x239.jpg?resize=300%2C239\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Blue-swimming-crab-Thailand.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Blue-swimming-crab-Thailand.jpg?w=379&amp;ssl=1 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:\u00a0Proyrat Chaowajaroenpong and Ong-art Kumprasert (Thailand) The culture of blue swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus is carried out in earthen ponds. Appropriate water salinity for the blue swimming crab culture ranges from 20-30 g\/l. Crabs are fed trash fish which is usually offered twice\/day throughout the growing season that extends to about 6 months. \u00a0In the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=7225\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[359,11,291,293],"tags":[2880,2882,2652,433,1988,487,2805,2126,2881,1779,366],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-english","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-blue-swimming-crab","tag-crab-culture","tag-crabs","tag-earthen-ponds","tag-feeding","tag-growing-season","tag-market-price","tag-marketing","tag-portunus-pelagicus","tag-salinity-range","tag-thailand","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-1Sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11460,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/11460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}