Quantitative assessment and management of small-scale fisheries is a persistent problem
for fisheries. Crustaceans are particularly challenging for conventional techniques because …

The three-spot swimming crab Portunus sanguinolentus is an easily recognisable portunid
species owing to the three red spots on its carapace. Like other portunid swimming crabs, P …

The Nematopalaemon hastatus prawn fishery in Okoro river estuary, Nigeria, is of great
ecological value and forms the bulk of economic rent and livelihood of the artisanal fishers …

Ecosystem models are essential for understanding the complex trophic interactions of a
marine food web. An Ecopath model was built on Northern Bay of Bengal (NBoB) ecosystem …

Despite the abundance of commercially important and edible crabs in Palawan, there is no
consolidated information on their taxonomy, distribution, and ecology that will serve as …

Catfishes belonging to the genus Chrysichthys are generally important fish species in inland
water bodies of Africa because of their high commercial value. Among them, C …

Fishery and stock assessment of the portunid crab Charybdis natator were studied for a one-
year period along the Gulf of Mannar coast, India, mainly to assess these conditions along …

This review summarises (i) the biology and behaviour of portunid crabs, focusing on the
commercially and recreationally important species within the genera Callinectes, Portunus …

Crabs are an important biological component of the West African lagoon fauna and are
exploited by fishing communities. This paper presents a synthesis of the current …

Abstract Portunus sanguinolentus (Herbst, 1783) is an important commercial crab with a
wide distribution along the Indian coast. In Kerala it is landed mainly in trawls, and ranks first …