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Echinoderms piggybacking on sea cucumbers: Benign effects on sediment turnover and movement of hosts
Type: Journal Article
Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are known to host ectocommensal animals but echinoderm epibionts have never been reported nor their effects on hosts appraised quantitatively. At one location in New Caledonia, we found a high ...
Optimisation of mesh enclosures for nursery rearing of juvenile sea cucumbers
Type: Journal Article
Mariculture of tropical sea cucumbers is promising, but the nursery rearing of juveniles is a bottleneck for farming and sea ranching. We conducted four medium-scale experiments lasting 3–6 weeks, using thousands of cultured ...
Geography limits island small-scale fishery production
Type: Journal Article
Interacting social and ecological processes shape productivity and sustainability of island small-scale fisheries (SSF). Understanding limits to productivity through historical catches help frame future expectations and ...
Chinese trader perceptions on sourcing and consumption of endangered seafood
Type: Journal Article
Growing trade networks through globalization have expanded governance of local environments to encompass multiple scales. The governing role of market actors, such as traders and consumers in importing countries, has been ...
Asia-Pacific tropical sea cucumber aquaculture
Type: Conference Paper
ACIAR, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), organised a symposium on tropical sea cucumber aquaculture at SPC Headquarters in Noumea, New Caledonia, in February 2011. Although the principal ...
Distribution of economic returns in small-scale fisheries for international markets: A value-chain analysis
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fishers are often believed to receive marginal earnings for seafood relative to other value- chain actors but proportionate incomes across different traded species are rarely compared. This study compares value ...
Analysis of optimal habitat for captive release of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra
Type: Journal Article
The success of marine stocking programs hinges on releasing hatchery-produced juvenile animals into the optimal marine habitat. This study sought to identify optimal microhabitat features of coastal seagrass meadows for ...
Rotational harvesting is a risky strategy for vulnerable marine animals
Type: Journal Article
Sea cucumber fisheries exemplify resource systems under intense exploitation pressure from lucrative Asian markets. Plagányi et al. (1) model the performance of rotational harvests of sea cucumbers on the Great Barrier ...
Overview of sea cucumber aquaculture and sea-ranching research in the South-East Asian region
Type: Conference Paper
South-East Asia has traditionally been the global centre of production of tropical sea cucumbers for Chinese markets. Early research into culture methods took place outside this region, notably in India, the Pacific region ...
Lessons for resource conservation from two contrasting small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries present challenges to management due to fishers' dependency on resources and the adaptability of management systems. The authors compared social-ecological processes in the sea cucumber fisheries of ...