Volume 25, Issue 75, January - June, 2024

Determining the fat content and its changes in males and females of the Blue Swimmer Crab Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Syria

Izdihar Ali Ammar^1♦, Hussam Alddin Laika², Sara Adnan Fadel³

¹Professor, Dept of Marine Biology at HIMR, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
²Assistant Professor, Dept of Marine Chemistry at HIMR, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
³PhD Student, Dept of Marine Biology at HIMR, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria

^♦Corresponding author
Professor, Dept of Marine Biology at HIMR, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria

ABSTRACT

This research focused on determining the fat content in samples of the invasive blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus, collected quarterly from the coast of Latakia during the year 2020. Fat percentages ranged between 3.1-5.5%, with an average of (4.59±0.77) in males, and 2.9-3.9%, with an average value of (3.28±0.36) in females. in the summer, and between 1.7-2.9% and an average value (2.29±0.46) in males and 1.1- 3.5% and an average value (1.56±0.70) in females during the Autumn. In the winter, 0.7-1.9%, an average value (1.29±0.48) in males, and 0.2-1.5%, an average value (1.13±0.53) in females, and between 3.7-6.9% and a value Average (5.22±0.86) in males and 3-4.2% and a medium value (3.44±0.44) in females in the spring. The current study showed that the invasive crab P. pelagicus can be considered a good source of healthy fats, and that the lowest percentage of fats was in the spring and summer seasons, and the percentage is related to sex and season, and it can be recommended to catch it and consume its meat as a food item rich in important fatty acids and not expensive compared to Fish in Syrian local markets and thus contributing to solving the problem of its negative impact on the Syrian coast.

Keywords: blue swimmer crab, crustacea, fatty acids, Syrian coast

Species, 2024, 25(75), e16s1649

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i75.e16s1649

Published: 09 April 2024