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Development and Application of Sea Cucumber Fishery Regulations in French Polynesia Development and application of sea cucumber fishery regulations in French Polynesia Arsène Stein1 1. The sea cucumber fishery situation in to supply an experimental smokehouse. Fishers were paid French Polynesia before 2008 per sea cucumber and encouraged to use ‘torpedo spears’ or ‘dri-bombs’, accessories recommended at the time to facili- In French Polynesia, the trade in sea cucumbers (locally tate deep-water sea cucumber fishing. This programme led called rori) began in the 19th century as a supplement to to the production of 786 kg of beche-de-mer (also called the trade in pearl oyster shells (nacre or mother-of-pearl). trepang) over three years, all of which was sold to several In 1848, sea cucumbers were harvested from 11 atolls in Chinese restaurants in Tahiti at an average price of XPF the Tuamotu Islands (Lucett 1851). Official annual sta- (CPF francs)2 1,141 per kilo (kg-1). This was a considerable tistics on dried sea cucumber exports are not available amount for that time as in comparison, salted or dried fish before the 1930s, but do indicate exports of 59,400 kg produced at the same location sold at XPF 228 kg-1. Despite in 1931; 36,800 kg in 1932; 7,380 kg in 1933; 1,700 kg the favourable purchase prices proposed, fishers from Apa- in 1934; and 9,800 kg in 1935, probably from the Tua- taki did not develop this business for themselves, and the motus. A long period follows during which statistics on experimental programme came to an end. dried seafood products were recorded only for certain years; these figures indicate up to several tonnes, but it In 1998, a private company established a processing centre is not possible to distinguish between the proportions of on Fakarava Atoll in the Tuamotus. It was equipped for pro- fish and sea cucumber. cessing approximately 10 tonnes (t) of finished products per month but ceased activity several months later, after having Some sea cucumber species are also eaten by a portion of the processed just 1 t of finished products in total. local population, but harvests remain small in comparison to those of other seafood products such as molluscs, shell- The above background makes it possible to state that, over- fish and especially finfish. The inhabitants of three of the all, French Polynesia’s sea cucumber stocks were hardly Austral Islands – Rimatara, Rurutu and Rapa – are known exploited between 1940 and 2008, with the exception of to be particularly fond of sea cucumbers such as Actinopyga Rimatara and Rurutu Islands in the Australs where subsist- mauritiana, Holothuria atra, H. cinerascens, H. leucospi- ence fishing is deeply rooted, and Tahiti, where many people lota and Stichopus horrens, which they eat both raw and from those two islands live. cooked. Polynesians of Asian origin are also keen on teatfish (H. fuscogilva and H. whitmaei), which they eat cooked. 2. Commercial fishing from 2008 onwards Because of sea cucumbers’ high commercial value, several and the problems that arose initiatives were launched by the Fisheries Department in French Polynesia to develop the teatfish fishery so as to cre- Commercial sea cucumber fishing in French Polynesia ate a means for livelihood in rural areas. In the late 1970s started in earnest in 2008, when a local operator who had and early 1980s, the Fisheries Department carried out teat- learned the trade in New Caledonia opened a business. That fish processing trials on Tahiti and Moorea (using artisanal initiative led to other new operators setting up businesses. smokehouses) to determine whether there was potential for Between 2008 and 2011, exports grew exponentially, with further development. The trials did not last long, however, 3 t exported in 2008, 28 t in 2009, 56 t in 2010 and 125 t because of very low harvest quantities. in 2011. In 2012, total exports increased slightly,– despite a fishing season limited to 10 months – to 132 t, some 6.8 t of Between 1984 and 1986, the Fisheries Department imple- which was exported in 2013. This residual amount exported mented a seafood product processing programme on Apa- in 2013 can be explained by the fact that commercial fishing taki Atoll, where the potential for teatfish was considered ended on 1 November 2012 when the sea cucumber fish- to be better. Raw materials were provided by Fisheries ing regulations came into effect, and a six-month period was Department staff initially, and later by the island’s fishers, established for selling residual stocks. 1 Project leader, Department of Marine Resources, French Polynesia. [email protected] 2 XPF 100 = USD 0.95 (16 January 2019) 40 SPC Fisheries Newsletter #157 - September–December 2018 Development and application of sea cucumber fishery regulations in French Polynesia frozen dried price 140,000 2,500 120,000 35,174 81,151 2,000 100,000 ) -1 90,304 1,500 80,000 60,000 Weight (kg) Weight 1,000 6,276 (XPF kg Price 50,090 40,000 44,147 6,503 500 20,000 21,866 3,094 6,803 0 - 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Year Figure 1. Sea cucumber exports by product type (unit = kg) and average per kilo prices. Despite the lack of access to operators’ statistics on the climbed sharply to 22 t. The average value of dried products quantities, species concerned and islands of origin, an analy- decreased to XPF 1,700 kg-1, while that of frozen products sis of export statistics made it possible to clearly distinguish was limited to XPF 335 kg-1. Because frozen products pre- between two types of products, divided by a price threshold dominated, the average value of exported products dropped at about XPF 800 kg-1: to XPF 636 kg-1. At least six of the Tuamotu Islands were fished for the production of dried sea cucumber products, 8 Expensive products, with a price of one to several thou- while most frozen products (A. mauritiana) came from sand CFP francs (XPF). These were mainly dried prod- Tahaa and Tahiti. ucts, usually exported by air. The three species with higher intrinsic value (Holothuria fuscogilva, H. whit- The 2009 scenario repeated itself in 2010, but was char- maei and Thelenota ananas) were generally processed acterised by a much greater harvest of species of lesser in this form. These products were shipped almost exclu- value, and exports that were dominated by frozen prod- sively to Hong Kong. ucts. Overall production doubled, with an estimated 50 t out of 56 t of sea cucumbers being exported frozen at an 8 ‘Cheap’ products, ranging in price from XFP 300 to average price of XPF 372 kg-1. The quantity of dried sea 700 kg-1, consisting of raw or semi-cooked products or of cucumbers remained stable, however, at 6 t, with slightly less valuable species, such as and Actinopyga mauritiana improved prices compared to 2009 due to an increase in . These products were exported frozen, Bohadschia argus the number of exporters (to nine) and the beginning of by ship, to destinations such as Taiwan and Vietnam. competition. The growing dominance of frozen products 2.1 Highlights of the 2008–2012 period brought down the average value of exported products to XPF 540 kg-1. That year, harvesting took place in at least In 2008, the sole sea cucumber operator targeted only 13 Tuamotuan atolls. Frozen products continued to come the two or three species with the greatest market value mainly from the Society Islands of Tahaa, Raiatea, Hua- and exported 3 t of dried products harvested from several hine, Moorea and Tahiti. 2010 was marked by the efforts lagoons in the Society and Tuamotu islands. As the opera- of the municipality of Moorea, which already had a mari- tor had no competition, the prices he offered to fishers for time area management plan, to set up a regulatory frame- fresh products were rather low – all the more so because work for sea cucumber fishing, which led to a charter the exporter took care of processing them himself to ensure being established in 2011. optimal quality of the exported products. This may explain the relatively low average price declared at the time of export In 2011, overall production doubled once again, in par- of around XPF 2,000 kg-1. ticular because of very strong development in sea cucumber fisheries in Tahiti and Moorea, chiefly for B. argus. Produc- In 2009, at least two other exporters started up businesses, tion of frozen products reached 90 t for an average value of one of which dealt in low-value sea cucumber species, which XPF 700 kg-1. Meanwhile, the quantity of dried products were exported frozen. The production of dried products grew six-fold and their overall average value climbed to doubled to 6 t, and the production of frozen products nearly 2,700 kg-1, while the overall average value of exported 41 Development and application of sea cucumber fishery regulations in French Polynesia products reached XPF 1,250 kg-1. The increase in price can 2. One buyer rose up against the practice of traders who be explained mainly by heightened competition between bought sea cucumbers whole from fishers, saying that buyers who competed for the products on the ground and this hindered the renewal of wild populations that offered fishers prices that were closer to values on the inter- would reproduce naturally if their gonads were put national market. That year, sea cucumber fishing took place back into the ocean after evisceration. on at least 20 atolls in the Tuamotu Islands. On some atolls, 3. The harvest of several species was called into ques- such as Faaite, Fakarava, Arutua, Rangiroa, Kauehi and tion because of the very low added value of the fin- Amanu, teatfish stocks were considered to have already been ished product, or because the species was of minor heavily impacted.
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