Company to rear mud crabs in Brunei mangrove

Meeting demands: A section of the Aquaculture Innovation Centre’s R&D farm and facility at Neo Tiew Crescent. — Straits Times/ANN

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.