Sea Cumbers

When we first met the chief that wasn’t the chief, he was heading out with some guys to dive for sea cucumbers. We learned that they can make quite a bit of money from the sea cucumbers because there is a very big Asian market for them, and they have a consistent Korean buyer who pays them something like $100 per cucumber. So, as they overfish them, they are having to dive deeper and deeper to find them. It’s obviously not a sustainable venture, but in the meantime, it is boosting the local village economy. Wanting to do our share, the guys volunteered to find some while they were out spear fishing, and they were pleased when they brought back two, in fact, I think Brenden found one of them. But then it turned out they got the wrong ones, and the villagers laughed at them with a little bit of disgust on their faces as they threw the wrong ones back.