By Brenda Goh and Nicoco Chan

YANGCHENG LAKE, China (Reuters) -The last three years have been the toughest for Xie Dandan and her family during more than a decade cultivating one of China’s most esteemed culinary delicacies, the “hairy crab”, named for its furry claws.

“From 2022, it feels like the weather has been getting worse every year,” said the 34-year-old, standing amid tanks filled with the crabs, coveted for their sweet flesh and golden roe, while she wrapped some in straw to prepare them for customers.

“We’ve come to mentally prepare for these losses.”

Xie is among the farmers at Yangcheng lake in the eastern province of Jiangsu being forced to devise new ways to keep the crustaceans alive as unusually high temperatures and longer-than-expected summers have disrupted breeding

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