Seychelles' sea cucumber fishery: Data on processed products and other parameters

The sea cucumber fishery in the Seychelles has recently experienced rapid development. In order to imple ment a management plan for this fishery, more data are needed on the fished products, their processing and general socioeconomics. In this article, we present new data on the sea cucumber products obtained from the five main holothurian species fished. These data will also be useful for a description of species char acteristics and for the market grades. The recent data on catch, effort, and catch per unit of effort are also presented and discussed.