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Tropical sea cucumber aquaculture technology - Promising opportunity to meet growing sea cucumber demand
2nd Global Summit on Aquaculture & Fisheries
July 11-13, 2016 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Beni Giraspy and Grisilda Ivy

Sea Cucumber Aquaculture Consultancy, Australia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Aquac Res Development

Abstract:

Sea cucumber fishery is collapsing throughout the world due to the lack of fishery management and unsustainable fishing. The increasing demand for the processed product Beche de mer, is making the sea cucumbers more vulnerable for exploitation. Sea cucumber aquaculture and restocking programs are urgently needed to overcome declining fishery and also prevent extinction of species. In tropical countries the sea cucumbers sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and the golden sandfish (H. lessoni) are the most valuable species fetching premium prices (US$ 100 �?? 250/Kg) in the international market. Sandfish and Golden sandfish are widely distributed throughout Southeast Asia and Middle-East. Relatively warm water temperatures, wide distribution, suitable coastal habitats for grow out and the availability of commercial hatchery technology makes sea cucumber aquaculture very promising. Sea cucumber Consultancy, Australia has made tremendous improvements in sea cucumber hatchery technology through its R&D and commercial hatchery development programs. The main achievements include: a) Broodstock management for successful spawning; b) in vitro fertilisation for offseason spawning; c) high post-larval settlement and; d) intensive rearing of juveniles for pre-growout and growout. Using this advanced technology commercial sea cucumber hatcheries are established in Maldives, Australia and Saudi Arabia for the mass production of tropical sea cucumbers. This state of the art technology can be used to produce, millions of sea cucumber juveniles routinely in specialized hatchery to meet the growing market demand.

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Email: beni@seacucumberconsultancy.com.au