Reliable estimates of growth and mortality parameters are crucial for understanding how
populations of exploited species may respond to shifts in fishing pressure. Results of
previous studies on growth of the ecologically and economically important mangrove crab
Ucides cordatus in Brazil differ strongly and age estimates for minimum legal capture size
(60mm carapace width) range between less than 1 and 6–10years. These discrepancies are
probably due to inherent problems of the applied methods, namely laboratory based …