Off the coast of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, an underwater metropolis bustles. Sea turtles glide lazily through the surf while schools of fluorescent yellow butterflyfish weave between ...
Sea cucumbers described as "dark maggots" have brought new life to fish farms in Hawaii. Kauaʻi Sea Farm, the Pacific American Foundation and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ...
PROGRESO, Mexico — Ricardo Domínguez Cano stared at the Yucatán Peninsula's intense blue sea as he remembered a different time, before a vital sea animal was endangered. “The sea cucumber was not ...
It’s that time of year again for the sea cucumber, that bottom-dwelling, tubular creature sought after by a select group of dive fishers throughout Southeast Alaska, the processors who buy them and a ...
The present document reviews the population status, fishery and trade of sea cucumbers worldwide through the collation and analysis of the available information from five regions, covering known sea ...
A global drama that underscores the violence, financial destruction and ecological decimation that can be wrought by organized crime swirls around a rotund bottom-dwelling marine animal – the sea ...
Fishers on Indonesia’s Sapuka island have decided to regulate their sea cucumber harvests. Since the 1960s, sea cucumber has been an important commodity for the island, but heavy harvest pressure has ...
Fish maw, the dried or processed swim bladders of fish, and sea cucumber are both in demand for their perceived medicinal value and as luxury foods. Along with shark fin and abalone, they form the ...