Volume 68
Culture Potential for the Four-sided Sea Cucumber, Isostichopus badionotus, in Bermuda: An Approach for Conserving Natural Populations
Authors
Sarkis, S. Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2015
Pages: 475 - 477
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Panama City
Country: Panama
Abstract
Demand in Asian countries for sea cucumbers and their products has been growing since 1980, leading to the depletion of this resource in the traditional fishing grounds close to Asia; with an ever expanding market over the last ten years, this activity has moved to new and more distant fishing grounds, leading to the overexploitation of the species worldwide (Purcell et al. 2011). Natural populations of Isostichopus fuscus on the Pacific coasts of Mexico and Ecuador have recently been reported to be at critical levels due to overfishing (Toral-Granda 2008).