Sea cucumbers

GLOBAL - A sea cucumber farming operation in Madagascar has received a $2.75 million investment from Aqua-Spark - the sustainable aquaculture investment fund.

MADAGASCAR - Aqua-Spark, the first investment fund focused exclusively on sustainable aquaculture, has announced a new investment into a sea cucumber farming operation, Indian Ocean Trepang.

RUSSIA - Chinese investors have unveiled plans to invest about US$200 million with the aim to launch a new seafood aquaculture project in Russias eastern Primorsky Krai region.

UK - UK Scientists have discovered for the first time how marine animals called sea cucumbers can rapidly change the stiffness of their body, which could provide a useful basis for developing novel bi…

AUSTRALIA - The Spencer Gulf region is to get an economic boost if proposed changes to aquaculture zoning near Wallaroo which allow for finfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and algae farming go ahead.

US - Holothuria edulis, a type of slow-moving sea cucumber about the size of a classroom ruler, boasts an important ocean role despite its uncanny resemblance to an overcooked sausage. This "Burnt Hot…

GLOBAL - A new research paper from WorldFish and Stockholm Resilience Centre suggests that global marine resource exploitation can spread following patterns that are analogous to disease epidemics.

CANADA - Cape Broyle Sea Products Ltd. is receiving C$30,157 through the Provincial Governments Fisheries Technology and New Opportunities Program to help achieve efficiencies and long-term viability …

FRENCH POLYNESIA - The French Polynesian government, with help from Chinese investors, is planning a huge aquaculture project on Hao atoll. The venture is expected to cost around $1.5 billion dollars.…

CANADA - British Columbia's seafood harvesters are to receive support to help promote and increase export demand for Canadian Pacific sea urchins and sea cucumber skins and meats to new and emerging m…

SAUDI ARABIA - National Aquaculture Group (NAQUA) is the first company in Saudi Arabia to achieve GLOBALG.A.P. Aquaculture (Shrimp & Fish) and Compound Feed Manufacturing Certification.

GLOBAL - While sharks fin soup has long been a revered delicacy for the Chinese, trade in shark has recently declined, notes a new study from WorldFish scientist Hampus Eriksson and shark trade expert…

CHINA - Twenty-one sea cucumber farmers from Leting County of Hebei Province have demanded compensation of 148 million yuan ($23.9 million) to cover their economic losses and litigation costs due to a…

FIJI - After setting up the Pacific's first commercial sea cucumber hatchery in Vanuatu, two aquaculturalists, Paul Ryan and Poasi Fale Ngaluafe, are planning to expand the project to Fiji.

CHINA - China Central Television (CCTV) on Tuesday exposed the overuse of drugs in farmed sea cucumber in Northeast China's coastal Liaoning province, which has tainted the nearby seawater and killed …

MEXICO - Researchers at the National Fisheries Institute (INAPESCA) have developed a new technique for the measurement of sea cucumber in the Yucatan peninsula, helping to provide more reliable inform…

OMAN - A new $120 million shrimp and sea cucumber farm complex is to be built in Qurun, Oman as part of a joint venture between the Arabian Marine Development, Bank Sohar and Lim Shrimp Organisation.…

MEXICO - The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) has amended a notice on the seasons for the sea cucumber fishery in federal waters off the Yucatan P…

AUSTRALIA - Sea cucumber fishing in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park shows worrying signs of being unsustainable. Many species being targeted are endangered and vulnerable to extinction, as determin…

Mariculture of tropical sea cucumbers is promising, but the nursery rearing of juveniles is a bottleneck for farming and sea ranching. Steven W. Purcell and Natacha S. Agudo conducted four medium-scal…