A new climate change adaptation strategy is taking off in Palau – community rearing of mangrove crabs. Farmers are being supplied with young crablets under the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project, which is working to improve food security in the small island nation, and in particular to tackle the over-reliance on imported foods. Mangrove crabs are a traditional part of the Palauan diet, especially at custom feasts, and are also in high demand by hotels and restaurants. However, numbers harvested from the wild have been dropping, partly due to unsustainable harvesting. The project is addressing this by supplying small crabs to farmers and supporting them to rear the crabs to marketable size in submerged cages. Read more here - https://sprep.org/climate-change/mangrove-crabs-helping-palau-adapt-to-climate-change Image uploaded from SPREP news article.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 02:28:50 +0000
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