Beche de Mer

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The Industry Analysis


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Whats a Sea cucumber?

Commonly known as balat in the

Philippines.

Belongs to the family of Echinoderms.

Beche-de-mer and trepang are names fordried sea cucumber.


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HISTORY

The exploitation of sea cucumbers was

started by theC

hinese traders in the 16

th

century. These traders started to roam

around Asia to search for this echinoderm.

And they have been trading sea cucumbers

in Indonesia, Philippines and Hong Kong foryears.


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In the latter part of the eighteenth century,

British traders began stopping in Jolo in the

Philippines where they traded firearms, Indian

cloth and opium for trepang which were later

sold to the Chinese.

At the height of the marine products trade in

the 1830s, as many as 68 000 slaves were

captured each year and handed to

the sultansand chiefs of Jolo who forced the slaves to dive

for pearl shell and trepang.


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During this period, about 600 tonnes oftrepang were exported from Jolo each year.

The harvesting of huge amounts of trepang

in the mid 1800s saw a resurgence of heavy

exploitation in the 1980s and 1990s tosatisfy the demands fr om wealthy

consumers fr om Taiwan Pr ovince of China,

China Hong Kong SAR, southeastern China

and the Chinese communities fr om

Southeast Asia


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SEA CUCUMBERS IN ASIA


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In East and Southeast Asia,

Sea cucumbers are derived from the order

Aspidochirotida under two families,

Holothuriidae and Stichopodidae.

125 species of sea cucumbers, 52 arecommercially important.

Genuses that are being exploited;

Holothuria

Actinopyga

Bohadschia


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China, Hong Kong and Singapore are the

top trading countries for sea cucumber.

Philippines is the 2nd top exporting country

of sea cucumber, next to Indonesia.



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Prices of Sea Cucumber products


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Products


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SEA CUCUMBER

IN THE

PHILIPPINES


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It has 100 species of sea cucumbers, in

which 25 are commercially important.

Philippines


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Product flow of Sea Cucumber


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Trade and Export


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Trade and Export


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Trade and Export


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Collection and Management

Two harvesting methods used in the

country:

1. Divers gather sea cucumber for direct sale.

2. Divers gather sea cucumber by-catch.


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Foreign Market

Prices for sea cucumber

SPECIES US$/kgHolothuria fuscogilva 33.3

Holothuria scabra 29.4

Actinopyga lecanora 21.6

Stichopus hermanni 21.6

Holothuria nobilis 19.6


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Weaknesses


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Weaknesses

1. Poor Management

2. Lackof Inf

or

mati

on

3. Lack of Support from the Government


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Opportunities


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1. Newly established hatcheries in the country.

2. A large demand for sea cucumber

producti

on

world

wide.

3. Newmarket for sea cucumber.


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THREATS


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1. Over exploitation

2. Habitat Loss

3. Threats of global warming

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