Sea cucumber aquaculture has flourished as a result of increasing demand coupled with
declining wild fisheries and has been facilitated by technical progress in the production and …

Recent estimates put average coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) at about 20–
30%. This is estimated to be a large reduction since the 1960s. The Great Barrier Reef …

Coral reefs are in global decline with coral diseases playing a significant role. This is
especially true for Acroporid corals that represent~ 25% of all Pacific coral species and …

Worldwide, most sea cucumber fisheries are ineffectively managed, leading to declining
stocks and potentially eroding the resilience of fisheries. We analyse trends in catches …

In recent decades, invertebrate fisheries have expanded in catch and value worldwide. One
increasingly harvested group is sea cucumbers (class Holothuroidea), which are highly …

Market prices of seafood underpin harvest and management strategies for fisheries and
aquaculture. Beche-de-mer (processed, dried sea cucumbers) are highly valued in Asian …

Echinoderms play a key role in structuring many marine ecosystems and are notorious for
large population density variations in so‐called “outbreak” or “dieoff” events. In a review of …

Global exploitation of sharks and sea cucumbers to meet consumer demand in China is
motivating a rising conservation concern. In order to analyze trends in resource exploitation …

In the last years, sea cucumbers consumption is increasing in the Asian region, as
consequence more than 70% of the sea cucumber fisheries around the world are fully/over …

Where older taxonomic classifications have been used in referenced texts or in information
provided by colleagues, these have been changed to their new taxonomic determinations …