Artificial domesticated crocodile, and domestication and breeding has applied for a national key protection wildlife domestication and breeding license, artificial breeding of crocodile meat can be eaten, and nutritious, crocodile meat belongs to the high-protein food, the protein content of about 18%, for high-quality protein, containing the human body essential eight kinds of amino acids and so on.

But the wild crocodiles belonging to the protected animals, such as the Yangzi crocodile, are the national level of protection of animals, hunting is strictly prohibited.