Singapore farm business hopes to rear its mud crabs in a Brunei mangrove

The unique farming concept combines food production with restoring depleted mud crabs in the wild. ST PHOTO: HESTER TAN

SINGAPORE/BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: In a few years, seafood lovers could be digging into chilli crab and fried soft-shell crabs that come from a mangrove in Brunei.

But these mud crabs will be first bred in a lab, to be released to their natural mangrove habitats after they become crablets.