Talking about the aquatic animals that have clamped in both hands, certainly friends immediately imagine a crab. Apparently there are marine animals similar to crabs, but has a different habitat. Name of the marine animal is Rajungan or often called Portunus pelagicus. Crab is a crustacean animals that live in marine and brackish waters.
Differences crabs and rajungan can be seen from their lives. Rajungan never went ashore. They prefer to play around on the sea floor deeper.
Through technology in the maritime field, it is now cultivated land rajungan. Do not bother to dive into the ocean to see the animals Claws this one. Place rajungan cultivation in Indonesia, one of which is in the province of South Sulawesi. Not only rajungan, some marine animals are also cultivated.
Rajungan cultivation process begins with the parent mating rajungan in cages rectangular. There are 18 cages and boxes each containing one breeding female with two to three stud tail distributed in any place.
After the marriage, the mother took about two weeks to begin to lay eggs. If one year old, the eggs will be in black and ready to hatch. Well after spawning, the parent rajungan are moved to the hatchery. Parent rajungan will release the eggs hatch when it begins. For the process of hatching, rajungan takes approximately one night.
After all the eggs hatch into larvae, rajungan parent will be returned to its original place. The new larvae hatch takes 25 days to become the baby rajungan with perfect organs. It took special care for the baby rajungan so that the baby can grow up healthy and strong!
At the age of adolescence, a new rajungan can be released into ponds for the cultivation of augmentation phase. This Rajungan takes three months to grow into mature and ready for harvest.
To harvest rajungan, must use a trap made of wire containing a small salted fish bait. It also can use a net or nets and rajungan will stay stretched and attached to the side of the net.
Once harvested, Rajungan must be immediately brought to the mediator for sale. If left too long, rajungan will die and rot. The collectors rajungan in the rajungan Takalar usually reselling in the form of decoction. So Rajungan in bulk washed and boiled so that the meat is durable. Rajungan prices range from Rp 30,000, - to Rp 50,000, - per kilogram.
Meat Rajungan cultivated here, including one Rajungan quality cultivation and exported to all over the world including the United States. So, do not hesitate to consume Rajungan, because the Rajungan are rich in calcium and protein which is very good for our bodies.
