Effects of Different Habitat Space on Growth Performance and Nutritional Composition of Swimming Crabs (Portunus trituberculatus)

Table 3

Proximate composition of muscle of P. trituberculatus (dry matter; n = 3).

Parameter	Different habitat space
	0.5 m^2	1 m^2	10 m^2	100 m^2
Moisture (%)	79.79 ± 0.84	78.73 ± 2.35	78.58 ± 2.17	79.42 ± 1.07
Crude protein (%)	16.77 ± 0.31^b	17.93 ± 0.11^a	17.85 ± 0.25^a	17.11 ± 0.19^b
Crude lipid (%)	0.40 ± 0.01^b	0.48 ± 0.04^a	0.41 ± 0.01^ab	0.44 ± 0.01^ab
Crude ash (%)	1.93 ± 0.02^a	1.96 ± 0.02^a	1.88 ± 0.01^b	1.89 ± 0.03^b

Note: values within the same row with different letters mean significant difference ().