Sea Cucumber - Aquaculture

Aquaculture

Overexploitation of sea cucumber stocks in many parts of the world, provided motivation for the development of sea cucumber aquaculture in the early 1980s. The Chinese and Japanese were the first to develop successful hatchery technology on Apostichopus japonicus, prized for its high meat content and success in commercial hatcheries. A second species, Holothuria scabra, was cultured for the first time using the techniques pioneered by the Chinese and Japanese for by India in 1988. In recent years Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Maldives, Solomon Islands and Viet Nam have also successfully cultured H. scabra using the same technology and has since been expanded to other species.