Profile updated on 23 November 2021

SUMMARY

SUMMARY

IDENTIFICATION

SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)

Portunus pelagicus

SPECIES NAME(s)

Blue swimming crab, Flower crab

COMMON NAMES

Ocean crab, Blue swimmer crab

No information regarding stock structure of Blue swimming crab in Chinese coasts have been found.


ANALYSIS

Strengths
  • The minimum legal size (8cm CW) is well below the size at which 50% of the females are mature (10.8cm CW) (Liu et al. 2014).

SCORES

Management Quality:

Management Strategy:

< 6

Managers Compliance:

< 6

Fishers Compliance:

< 6