The present document reviews the population status, fishery and trade of sea cucumbers worldwide through the collation and analysis of the available information from five regions, covering known sea ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the Head ...

Inside the processing plant at Alaska Glacier Seafood (AGS), plant manager Nick Segal held out a slimy, gelatinous sea creature about the size and shape of a pickle. The cylindrical bottom-dweller has ...

PROGRESO, Mexico — Ricardo Domínguez Cano stared at the Yucatán Peninsula's intense blue sea as he remembered a different time, before a vital sea animal was endangered. “The sea cucumber was not ...

Sea cucumbers, the small vacuum cleaners of the sea floor, are highly prized as delicacy, folk remedy, and aphrodisiac, especially in Asia, but their numbers are declining. A recent sea cucumbers ...

Dive into an underwater adventure as we explore the art of spearfishing and present an intriguing meal option: sea cucumber.

The lure of lucrative echinoderms may have proved too strong for three Southeast fishermen. The trio, all from Naukati Bay on Prince of Wales Island, face criminal charges after pilfering nearly 4 ...

A global drama that underscores the violence, financial destruction and ecological decimation that can be wrought by organized crime swirls around a rotund bottom-dwelling marine animal – the sea ...

A sea cucumber is seen Dec. 30, 2005, in California. Sean Hiller/The Orange County Register SEATTLE (AP) — The owner of a Washington seafood company was sentenced to two years in prison for ...