Sea Cucumber: The Asian Delicacy Feeding A Deep, Dark Trade | Undercover Asia | CNA Documentary
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- Sea cucumbers, a prized delicacy in Chinese cuisine, fetch exorbitant prices in East Asia. These creatures play a crucial role in marine ecology -they vacuum the ocean floor; help coral reefs to grow and slow down the acidification of oceans.
But now a soaring demand for these creatures is luring criminal gangs and fueling a booming multimillion dollar illegal trade.
As millions of sea cucumbers get decimated, authorities and conservationists escalate their war on the poachers. Undercover Asia dives into the illegal sea cucumber trade and uncovers a global hotspot in the waters between India and Sri Lanka.
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We HOPE World-wide Authorities/Governments act to IMPROVE THINGS in 'our' Oceans/seas/rivers,Etc,etc!!
With the situation of Sri Lanka, sea cucumber will be a lot of threat.
Love this documentary!
Loving this CNA Insider Undercover Asia series.
I see many comments directing or blaming certain ethnicity or country. In fact all this happen because of human greed and every part in the world have that kind of human. This video actually told us to be more modest and protect environment, not blaming. Blaming comments is disgusting.
NO CREATURE IS SAFE FROM HUMAN PILLAGING. OUR SPECIES HAS BECOME THE WORLD'S MOST DESTRUCTIVE PARASITE.
Sad..but true...😕😕
Human is the Highest level predator that should be hunt. Hahahaha. They are overpopulated and disturbing ecosystem. But sadly i dont want to be killed. The same with the animals too.
So we can add Sea Cucumbers to Tigers, Rhinos, Elephants -- all being threatened by Chinese 'cuisine' and 'medicine'
The same with oyster and tuna. Maybe we should add oyster and tuna also. The population is declining fast by overfishing too. Threatened by western cuisine.
Oysters can be farmed, no? But tigers, rhinos, elephants cannot. And being a HongKonger, I do know a thing or two about the absurd reasons why Chinese ppl eat tiger (their penis believing it make them more viral) and, the elephant tusk for good luck (if such the case, it definitely did not bring elephants any luck ), rhino horn for medicine purpose (which is already analyzed containing the same composition of out nails), sea cucumbers for skin beauty. Roll eyes
Not saying the Westerners are not harming nature, but the Chinese tend to have a swarm effect that they pretty much swarm and wipe out everything.
And we can add Humanity in overall being threatened by Western 'freedom' and 'democrazy'
@@cch33tah53 haha laughable.
And Pangolins the least known/most trafficked animal. Surviving some 80 million years from natural predators like lions, they're now plucked off the ground in Africa or around Asia by humans, to "cure" disease. Their scales, highly priced, are however made of keratin...like rihno horn, so people could just bite their own nails 😡
Again China?!!! No surprise!
Eating wildlife is the culture of East Asians especially Mainland Chinese, sea cucumber, pangolin, shark fin etc. are illegally imported to China as exotic food.
Wat that is
"never disappointing" -_-
It's the gift that keeps on giving...
"The solution to pollution is dilution" china
Anything that gets used for commercial purpose and affects human & nature in a devastating way, the law should be very severe
Only the human species is destroying this planet in more ways than one. We are our own worst enemies and greed not necessity is to blame.
it is no consumed locally by the Indians and the Sri Lankans. Because only sexually repressed societies would crave for this sea hotdogs.
How & who was the first person to discover that it can be eaten?🤣🤣
He must have been like, "oooh look at that ugly thing, Im gonna eat it"
asians eat anything that moves
You need to understand that human only escaped from food scarcity in the late 19th century before then, food was very hard to obtain hence why our ancestors were far more daring in their choice of food.
Same about crabs, they are so yummy, but they look like sea spiders!
Some people love eating asssss all day everyday other considered nasty 🤣😂🤣
@@annieli3518 prawns and lobsters are just big water bugs.
I think consumers need to change. Its impossible for low to middle income countries to prevent wildlife exploitation. Take Sri Lanka for instance, their economy is decimated, people don't have food, fuel. How will they stop illegal trade and animal exploitation. We need to do more to educate consumers about their choices and give them other alternative without preaching.
90% of Sri Lankan debt is held by the west.
Ask them to forgive the debts, and not prey on poor people.
And use education instead of only banning.
@@polysporin8332 you have a good point though it is far removed from the urgent action needed to stop habitat and species extinction and I believe education could help local populations both to appreciate why the above is necessary for the planets survival and to help them survive in a sustainable way.
I had sea cucumber, abalone. They don't taste good, and I have no idea why it's so expensive.
Because the Chinese FALSE BELIEF THAT THEY CURE DISEASES. IT IS AN IDIOTIC FALACY . IT IS DESTROYING THE ECO- SYSTEM.
Due to heavy demand in the Chinese population especially the mainlanders. Mainland Chinese eat wildlife like no tomorrow which contribute to spreading of coronavirus to whole world.
its for East Asians. Other Asians dont eat this. it looks gross.
@@eduardochavacano South east asia people use sea cucumbers as medication.
It's hard to understand the appeal of the shriveled up and blackened old sea cucumber, and harder still when they are sitting out in the Hong Kong sun all day gathering a coating of auto exhaust. And this is supposed to be a health product?
Well they/some traditional medicine also 1 think eating raw organs of for instance rodents can cure...instead they can end up with plague. Or 2 that regular keratin in rhino horn or a pangolins scales can heal....they could just chew their own nails if keratin is so beneficial?
@Chatsta yeah, that's another thing. it's not like the south asian guys harvesting and processing these things understand the belief and respect the product, they think the Chinese are weird for eating it and whack them around in the dirt without care.
@@perfectallycromulent What do u mean? All parts of Asian used sea cucumber as medicinal products because of its healing properties. They turned it into oils to treat wounds which works way better than any modern products as it will heal in just a short time and leave no scars at all. Quite popular as ingredients in beauty.products too. It's also turns into medicinal drinks to treat internal wounds. I never heard of it being eaten as delicacies though but sea cucumbers is not exactly extinct. The only threat sea cucumber has is to the pharmaceutical companies.
@@nutzhazel watch the video and look at how the sea cucumbers are processed in sri lanka, and then stored in buckets on the roadside in hong kong, it's filthy, and not healthy. no pharma company is threatened by these products because they sell refined and clean products that actually work.
Im putting all my money on sea cucumbers sounds like a market boom.
They sell them at Costco in the USA and Canada. Not all Sea Cucumbers are illegal, and most are legitimately farmed.
Farmed for the Sexually Repressed. No really needs to eat those gentle sea creatures, if they just deal with what they really crave for.
@@eduardochavacano tacky
Wild & farmed are two different things China should FARM THEM
There is some truth to the idea that education can be a powerful tool in addressing social issues and promoting positive change. By providing people with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to understand and address complex problems, education can help empower individuals and communities to find solutions and make informed decisions.
However, it's essential to recognize that education alone may not be sufficient to solve every issue. In some cases, it may be necessary to take additional steps, such as implementing policies or regulations, to address specific problems. Additionally, it's essential to consider the root causes of an issue and address them comprehensively and holistically.
Overall, it's often best to take a multifaceted approach to address social issues, which may include education as well as other strategies and interventions.
I have said this a million times and I am repeating it again....
China..
Just make sea cucumber farm. So the wild sea cucumber can continue their populations
people do that, but its expensive to make a farm.
or just go have sex. Because only sexually repress people really need to eat those phallic symbols.
Every species is there for reason
so do we.
@@btdism we're already crossing 7 billion. We don't need to multiply more. Humans cause the most harm.
Will there be any videos on effects of underwater nuclear testings that's been going on for decades? It's not a joke, some of the bombs that they dropped in our oceans is really huge. For sure these caused a lot of problems for the marine ecosystems and life. Lots of cases where sea animals can't even find their way home and massive numbers of them endup beached on unfamiliar beaches and dying.
ist tabu teme , no one goma talk on it :/
recalling how no one gave a rat ass when japan dumped their hard water to the ocean... yeah no..
@@slimbamboo7875 I guess those are "justified" :/
I need sea cucumber now
Rather than see the executor as criminal. Why not trace the buyer? I believe the buyer is rich man in western world. What that countries do ? I guess, do almost nothing. Totally disgusting.
eating sea cucumber is solely the culture of Chinese. idiot stops the blame game against Westerners.
It's often important to consider the demand for products or services that drive social issues, including the end consumer and the price they are willing to pay. By understanding the factors that contribute to demand, it may be possible to address the issue at its source and reduce the incentives for people to engage in harmful behaviours.
For example, in the case of poaching, it's important to understand the motivations of the poachers and the market demand for the products they are seeking to obtain. By educating end consumers about the negative impacts of poaching and the importance of conservation, it may be possible to reduce the demand for illegal wildlife products. Additionally, it may be necessary to implement policies and regulations to reduce the supply of these products and deter poachers from engaging in this activity.
Overall, it's important to consider a range of factors when addressing social issues and to take a comprehensive approach that addresses both demand and supply.
I had sea cucumber in a restaurant once. It was absolutely disgusting. How this rubbery, bitter, slimy thing can be considered a "delicacy" is beyond me.
it's the culture
@@SM-ce1uy it's personal taste..
It's not really a delicacy. They're sick in the head. They try it once because"it's cool".
None of them are waking up to make sea cucumber sandwiches and bring them to work for lunch.
the restaurant did a poor job cooking it. i ate sea cucumbers every year when i was little and they tasted good. well, they themselves tasted mild, the sauce did most of the flavoring.
Your taste is disgusting
The Slav Lanka merchant shows why education is very important
One of the best editing by Manvir Jasrotia.
The irony was Sea Cucumber doesn't even tasty. People would only buy it or order it at an exotic restaurant because a chance to eat restricted food gives them excitement.
Marine aqua-culture ( marine fish farming ) is practiced in many countries to combat over fishing and combat the loss of many endangered marine species .
Foremost among the many set backs to this solution however, is that unraveling their life-cycles, mimicking their natural environment or habitat artificially and even getting them to breed, can sometimes be quite challenging .
We have been successfully farming sea cucumber in Indonesia for the last 12 years. It is not as lucrative as poaching it from the seabed but it makes more sense in term of sustainability.
These family depend on sea cucumber fishing. Its a vital export industry.
Think about it. What will happen if you overfish the ocean.
Interesting, but virtually unaddressed is the affect on the ocean corals of the world, which are dying at lightening speed. Without coral reefs, marine life entirely extinct. These facts must be a major part of the need to stop this sea cucumber market. The Chinese herb doctor didn't bother to mention it; perhaps he doesn't know or doesn't care. With this information in hand, perhaps it can help a little, but until governments help the poor, there's no way out. Sri Lanka's broke right now. I also noticed that on the restaurant menus it stated Australia as the source of the cucumber, so Australia's authorities can also have an impact on this illegal branding and fishing. Greed and poverty are killing our environment.
This see cucumber is really good actually
Oh no! Sea cucumber at Costco is sold at a great price and sometimes goes on sale ! Now I should tell my parents not to eat this!
All Canadian and American wild sea cucumbers have been harvested from sustainable sources. How dare you to smear black Chinese? By the way, Taiwanese also enjoy sea cucumbers too! Laughing I to death!
Cucumber avaliable In Sri Lanka Food Export And Dealer in the oceanic. More details Reply me👍
People can buy one pound of dry wild caught Canadian Red Sea cucumbers from Costco for about $70. People can buy wild caught whole cooked US Alaska Giant Red Sea cucumbers from Costco too. It is just greed that drive the Indian sea cucumber poachers. How dare people to try to link the Indian sea cucumber poachers with Chinese?
Best way to save these cucumber are make thousands of dami cucumbers and put them to bottom of the sea.
There is hope
Please make documentation of military testing, under sea nuclear bombing, sea surface detonation of war equipment. The devastation not only causes mass killing of sea lives within several miles along with destruction of original habitats varnished completely.
Poor things what's gonna happen when there is no sea cucumbers left
They looks like big caterpillar 🐛😖😣
Yin and Yang in body, but the earth suffers, LOL! What a way to contradict themselves.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THEY DON’T EAT? I SAW A HORRIFYING TIKTOK VIDEO OF A WOMAN DOING AN ASMR MUKBANG OF HER EATING TWO TURTLES COOKED IN A SWEET-SOUR SZECHUAN STYLE 🐢 THAT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE ME LOSE MY APPETITE FOR TWO DAYS.
Turtle soup was eaten in the UK, and is still consumed in Japan, US, and Southeast Asia
💀💀💀
Some people love eating asssss 😂🤣
@@bettysmith.
The UK did many horrible things THEY NO LONGED DO, so if they can stop eating turtle soup, so can Asia.
Just because ''somebody did something'' in the past, doesn't mean we must continue to do it today (since we have more knowledge, and exact sciences explaining, demonstrating, and warning us, as in this sea cucumber documentary).
Puke
How do you see this edible
My Chinese 🇨🇳 friends please give a try to Potassium Cyanide and let us know how it test. Please🙏🙏🙏
Sea cucumber..gud for inner health..esp for confinement..we hv a lot in langkawi, Malaysia.
alot of those are in jamaica waters...nobody eats them
shhh dont let anyone know
Why are you letting them know that??
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Science matters.
Obviously should ban sea cucumber!
Who knows these disgusting to touch creatures are valued at a high price, they are so many here in our province, lol, we didn't eat that as we're not familiar with it so they continue to flourish
I’m not going to eat that ugly living thing.
Vegan is the better way for the planet.
Plants are alive
Whenever there is a weird food I promptly understand that Chinese are involved .
All Canadian and American wild sea cucumbers have been harvested from sustainable sources. How dare you to smear black Chinese? By the way, Taiwanese also enjoy sea cucumbers too! Laughing I to death!
Too many people, the planet depleted
It was Mexico. Now India and Sri Lanka
Only politicians getting benefits in Srilanka. Also who gives permits getting bribes.
Dis sea cucumber really useful for health..very recommended to hv
It is NOT JUST CHINESE who ate SEA CUCUMBER MALAY ARCHIPELAGO ATE SEA CUCUMBERS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.... ONLY THE CHINESE' FUELLED THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF IT.
Yeah sea cucumber should be extinct long time ago lol
27,54 if they're nearly caught, all the sea cucumbers are dumped...they are just wasted and probably the ppl involved go back "fishing" ie just plucking the poor things, asap to make up for losses....the ban n high penalties seem not to be a great solution. How about educating ppl on why sea cucumbers and maintaining/protecting our wildlife and habitat is important for our planets survival would be a great way to go. The prohibition seems to not be effective (as he said then they told us not to do it) but he doesn't seem to know about the importance of habitat n wildlife preservation for ALL of US...at ALL.
PS the sea cucumber plucked of that dead reef was the saddest to watch...poor thing could've really helped to start making the dead surroundings come back to health. It's enough how we pollute the ocean with chemicals, run off from factory farms, destroy it by catching way too much incl so called by-catch/by-kill, and industrial/destructive methods destroying the seafloor for just one catch, the negative impact of farming fish and finally all the plastic....we now know we ourselves eat and drink microplatics everyday (approx the size of a credit card per person). And we know little pieces of a child's balloon (bought to make them happy for a moment) can kill an endangered sea turtle ....that then never gets to reproduce, so the child will never get to see that turtle....or live on a healthy sustainable planet. Our children will have to deal with all the severe weather events, the conflicts due to climate migration, hunger, increasing armed conflicts....and increasing amounts of super bugs (because of over use of antibiotics especially in large scale animal agriculture) so they may not be able to have simple operations etc. As well as the increasing amounts of zoonotic diseases coming from our destruction of wild habitats, forcing wildlife to migrate into closer contact with us....it's very sad and frustrating. All I know is I do everything I can everyday. I avoid fast and consumerism, and only buy something if absolutely necessary, I'm actively reducing waste by avoiding packaging, not buying bottled water and instead I carry my own bottle, I'm while food vegan and focus on seasonal/local....and I'm against planned obsolescence and try to repair as much as possible. That way I've done all I can for all future generations.
There will be no future generation as long as the asian country devour all kind of being
from Sea or land.
also if you watch 'Dual Survivor' when they get put in the Sea, Dave goes and all he can catch are sea cucumbers, from his mouth "they taste like s**t, but it's protein". so why yall are eating them is beyond me.
Who is eating shark fins and sea cucumbers. There lies the answer. You ban eating it, the supply will perish.
A really naíve man I see.
@ Anoop. Countries should ban import of these items like they did for elephant tusks & rhino horns. Hopefully with the decrease in Chinese population, there would be less demand for these. And less sea poachers & smugglers.
Why need to ban it though? The US and Russia has been nuking and poisoning our oceans for decades with radioactive nucklear bombs testing and nobody bans them, not even these so called marine biologist. The only threat sea cucumber has is to the pharmaceutical companies.
its so sad
Supposedly...Daily staple of the China national soccer players 😅
Greed and gluttony are destroying our earth 🌎 and oceans 😢 💔.
What will the Chinese or Japanese not eat ?
It’s delicious though
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Sea cucumber is yummy.
Why destroy it when they can feed the poor with it?
Human insatiable hunger for delicacies is what will kill the world eventually
fined only or jail time??
If sea cucumber can cure impotency why is China's birth rate dropping ? 😂😂😂
Birth control?😅
@@annieli3518 not anymore. Now they want 3 kids each couple and couples aren't able to
@@parthakaarjun It's not that couples aren't able to, they don't *want* to due to the rising expenses of caring for children especially in major cities. Falling birth rates are happening in many modernized countries (see Japan, Europe, the US...)
They don't want to, not they are not able to, they are aware the responsibility of having children not only just produce children like some people do, quality is more important than quantity
Oh no. It's bad if the Indians are in on it.
India and srilanka 😑 ? And which currency is encouraging them to do these ? Yup , teach your people not to eat them so that eventually the demand comes down and smugglers shift their focus on something good.
humans are hope less.....
I have sea cucumber
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Load of nonsense, 800 kg fresh sea cucumbers yields 80 kg dry sea cucumbers after processing , at current market value it’s 7000 usd , not 1 million usd , if you are a serious documentary maker then stop hyping
All Canadian and American wild sea cucumbers have been harvested from sustainable sources. How dare you to smear black Chinese? By the way, Taiwanese also enjoy sea cucumbers too! Laughing I to death!
We are eating this planet to death!
so that travellin route is to show that africans dont eat sea cucmbers! well to be honest we just stick to fish and thats all but in asian there eat the whole sea even the coral reefs 🤣🤣🤣🤣. id be shocked to go at my local resturant and get sea cucumbers on sale.....+254
Chinese medicine. Lol.
isnt there any animal the Chinese dont eat? they need to start respecting this planet
They eat everything by
Racist
This is disgusting leave our ocean life alone in the name of god, evil people
so its true, most of world enviroment problem come from china
People can buy one pound of dry wild caught Canadian Red Sea cucumbers from Costco for about $70. People can buy wild caught whole cooked US Alaska Giant Red Sea cucumbers from Costco too. It is just greed that drive the Indian sea cucumber poachers. How dare people to try to link the Indian sea cucumber poachers with Chinese?
All Canadian and American wild sea cucumbers have been harvested from sustainable sources. How dare you to smear black Chinese? By the way, Taiwanese also enjoy sea cucumbers too! Laughing I to death!
The hungry mouth of chinese they eat everything
China again...
Lets do "Beef: the Western staple meat and greenhouse gas"
China is the 3rd largest beef producer, and India is 4th. it's not a western staple, it's globally popular.
@@perfectallycromulent ok fine. Then let's do "America's lust for big cars and greenhouse gas"
@@JoeBaloney you say that like they ain't got that lust for big cars and greenhouse gas in China and India too, but they do. rich people all around the world, they act the same way, and China and India have as many rich people now as anywhere else, because of their huge populations.
@@JoeBaloney They should do America poisoning and nuking of our oceans with underwater radioactive nuclear bomb testing for decades.
@@JoeBaloney Are you okay??
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I'd like to try some of what you're on.
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All Canadian and American wild sea cucumbers have been harvested from sustainable sources. How dare you to smear black Chinese? By the way, Taiwanese also enjoy sea cucumbers too! Laughing I to death!
All Canadian and American wild sea cucumbers have been harvested from sustainable sources. How dare you to smear black Chinese? By the way, Taiwanese also enjoy sea cucumbers too! Laughing I to death!