PERUVIAN SEA CUCUMBER
(Patallus mollis)
The seafood trade is one of the world's largest and fastest growing internaional commodity industries. Worth more than $60 billion a year, it exceeds the world trade in all grains combined and represents more than twice the combined world trade in all tea, coffee and cocoa. Almost 200 countries supply fish and seafood products to the global marketplace, consisting of more than 800 commercially important species of fish, crustaceans and mollusks, includuing 30 species of shrimp alone. With the aquaculture industry being slightly less than 10% of the world's seafood trade of reported annual sales of $60.9 billion, the global sea cucumber market is reported at approximately $4.6 billion. The global sea cucumber market, according to presentations made at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Summit in Rome of 2004, the production capacity of sea cucumbers for commercial purposes has been approximately 1.6 billion sea cucumbers from hatcheries around the world. This brings the market value of sea cucumbers sold at US$23/kg (US$11.50/lb), a conservatively median
average 4.6 billion carrying a daily volume of US$12.6 million. This is based on the assumption of 4 adult sea cucumbers equaling 2 metric pounds or 1 kilogram, as this article further asserts that the average weight of one full grown juvenile is 250-350g ( ½ pound).) that the average weight of one full grown juvenile is 250-350g ( ½ pound).
The world’s coast line at 889,086 m2 has a sales value of US$242,168,750,000 which, according to the prescribed assumptions, would be translated as 24,216,875,000 lbs or 10,984,589 metric tons of sea cucumbers. The world population of sea cucumbers in numbers can therefore be estimated at 12,108,437,500 which exists along the said coastlines.
Despite these enormous figures, the traditional demand for dried sea cucumber is far from being met.
Commercial fishing pressure of wild sea cucumber populations have already driven many species into local extinction and continue to endanger these creatures throughout their global range. Lack of supply is stifling growth of sea cucumber in other viable markets.
Sea cucumber is widely consumed for food and as a traditional nutraceutical throughout Asian and Middle Eastern communities. It is so highly prized for its ability to fight arthritis pain and degeneration, for its anti-viral properties, as an aphrodisiac, and for regular consumption as a culinary component or in supplement form to promote overall good health. ( PAC Report )
BLACK SKIN PERUVIAN SEA CUCUMBER
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