Farming with the pulse of nature.
A Malaysian Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture company, designing systems that don't just protect nature, but help it heal.
Our Belief
Aquaculture shouldn't require the coast to disappear. We farm inside living systems, not in place of them. We work with surrounding species, not against them.
It begins with the crab. From there, the work widens: to the mangrove that holds it, the coast that holds the mangrove, and a world with more life because of how we farm.
Of all the species the mangrove holds, the crab is the one that holds the mangrove back.
Mangroves are sometimes called the lungs of the coast, they filter water, cycle nutrients, shelter juvenile fish, hold the shoreline together. But mangroves do not breathe on their own. They breathe through the species that live within them. And crab is one of the most important of those species.
Mud crab burrows aerate the sediment and let oxygen reach the root systems below. Their feeding cycles process leaf litter and return nutrients to the water. Their populations signal, earlier than almost any other indicator, whether a mangrove is thriving or in decline.
If you want to know how a mangrove is doing,
look at the crab.
That is the species we begin with, the one that opens the door for the rest. Heal the crab population, and the mangrove heals with it.
Farm the crab. Let the forest do the rest.
A single berried mud crab holds an entire generation beneath her belly: as many as 2 million eggs, in a dense mass that ripens from bright orange to deep brown as the embryos develop. When the time is right, she releases them all into the tides in a single moment.
To grow, a crab must crack open its own shell and step out of it. Its new body is soft, pale, vulnerable. The discarded shell sits beside it on the substrate, almost intact, a ghost of the body it just left.
A newly settled crablet has working claws. Working eyes. A shell that has already begun to harden. It walks sideways because its body knows no other way. Everything the adult will be is already inside this small body. Built, not waiting to be built.
The fishermen know the season by the colour of the water. The tide by the sound of the wading birds. The state of the crab population by what fills the net at dawn. Our work on this coast begins with them: in broodstock sourcing, in release programmes, in the daily reading of the system.
A coastal site at the meeting point of mangrove forest and the Strait of Malacca, naturally suited for crab nursery habitats, nutrient cycling, and biodiversity.
Mud Crab
Scylla spp.
The keystone of our IMTA system. We supply crablets, raised in our hatchery and ready for grow-out, alongside broodstock and culture advisory for grow-out and stock enhancement programmes.
Blue Swimming Crab
Portunus pelagicus
A tropical crab found across Southeast Asian coasts, increasingly important to small-scale fishers and increasingly under pressure. We are developing hatchery and culture protocols to support both wild populations and sustainable production.
Up to 200,000 offspring per berried crab.
Subject to species, broodstock condition, larval survival, and operational performance.
Alongside our commercial work, we run active conservation programmes on the same coast, restoring populations, supporting biodiversity, and partnering with the people who live there.
Selected berried females are returned to the mangrove to seed wild populations. Each release contributes to the genetic and ecological resilience of the coast we farm in.
A community-integrated programme working with local fishermen and research partners. The model, one sanctuary, one jetty, one community, one practical system, combines live buyback, recovery, tagging, sanctuary release, and long-term monitoring. Designed to be replicable along Malaysia's coast.
Healing a coast requires a unified front. MyKetam Scylla is driven by a dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and field practitioners, all sharing the same heartbeat.
Our marine biologists and university partners lead advanced aquaculture R&D, selecting for natural resilience and superior health, developing cultivation data and protocols, and working to show that commercial seafood production can actively restore a coast.
Our field operators and systems engineers turn protocols into daily practice, optimising hatchery operations, building the monitoring and data infrastructure, and grounding our nature-based solutions in real conditions.
The Tanjung Sepat fishermen, whose knowledge of the coast goes back generations and whose participation makes our release programmes real on the ground.
None of the three works without the other two.
We welcome partnerships that share our belief, that aquaculture and conservation can be designed together, not in opposition.
Funding programmes, corporate sustainability partnerships, ESG-aligned investment in coastal restoration and regenerative aquaculture.
University collaborations, joint research, government programmes, and knowledge-exchange partnerships.
Buyers, distributors, and aquaculture operators interested in mud crab, blue swimming crab, IMTA design, or advisory services.
Tiffany Chiar
+60 16-602 6126
tiffany@myketam.com
Lot 18815, Jalan Tanjung Sepat
42800 Tanjung Sepat
Selangor, Malaysia