Status of sea cucumber resources and impact of fishing ban on the livelihoodof fishers in Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay
2015
The sea cucumbers constitute an important part
of non-fish income source for thousands of fishers
along Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay of south east
coast of India. The fishery which is more than
thousand years old was introduced by the Chinese
stationed at Ramanathapuram, for preparing a dried
sea cucumber product Beche-de-mer. The sea
cucumber fishery in Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay
was artisanal in nature and consisted of fishermen
who were good divers, the processors who acted as
middlemen and the exporters. The sea cucumbers
were chiefly collected by skin diving to a depth of
1.5 to 6.0 m in the shallow seas using nonmechanised
country crafts. They were also caught
as by-catch in trawlers locally known as Thallu madi
(an indigenous modified trawler operating on wind
power in shallow waters), besides the Chanku madi
and Attai madi which were operated in deeper
coastal waters.
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