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In 2013, the Chinese government cracked down on the purchasing of sea cucumbers by officials as their expensive price tag could be seen as a sign of opulence. [ 17 ] In Japan, sea cucumber is also eaten raw, as sashimi or sunomono , and its intestine is also eaten as konowata , which is salted and fermented food (a variety of shiokara ).
The sandfish has been eaten by man for over 1000 years. About twenty other species of sea cucumber are also consumed but the sandfish is the species most often used. In the 1990s it was being sold dried as beche-de-mer for up to US$100 per kilogram. [13] Harvesting sandfish from the sea is known as trepanging in Indonesia. In many areas the ...
Greenfish sea cucumber. Stichopus chloronotus: Dambalayaa (දබලයා) Pineapple sea cucumber. Thelenota ananas: Annaasi attayaa (අන්නාසි අට්ටයා) Giant sea cucumber: Thelenota anax: Pun attayaa (පන් අට්ටයා)
The Philippine "Balatan" or Sea cucumber breeding/harvesting. Sea cucumbers to be used as broodstock are either collected from the wild or are taken from commercial harvests. [2] [3] Only the largest and healthiest individuals are used for broodstock, as the success of a hatchery relies on the healthy condition of brood individuals. [2]
Sea cucumbers can be found in great numbers on the deep seafloor, where they often make up the majority of the animal biomass. [17] At depths deeper than 8,900 m (5.5 mi), sea cucumbers comprise 90% of the total mass of the macrofauna. [18] Sea cucumbers form large herds that move across the bathygraphic features of the ocean, hunting food.
Sea cucumbers are found all over the world in both deep and shallow ocean waters and can be anything from less than an inch long to over six feet, and they have a huge variety of colors.
Holothuria (Microthele) whitmaei, commonly known as the black teatfish, is a species of sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae. The sea cucumber is distributed in the western Indian and Pacific oceans, with specimens being found off of Tanzania, [2] New Caledonia and the Philippines. [3] They are usually found in groups of 5-25 individuals. [4]
The brown-ringed sea cucumber can reach about 8 inches in length and about 2 inches in width, the study said. It has an “elongated,” tube-shaped body with 20 tentacles and over 70 tube feet.