Community farms feed families
Copefrito, which developed into a new hatch- ery, rearing and selling sea cucumbers, called Indian Ocean Trepang (IOT). IOT now produce juveniles for sale to the fishing families involved in Blue Ventures’ project. There are currently about 40 teams, with
around 100 people (another 250 are engaged in seaweed production), concentrated in two main villages, and Blue Ventures provides leadership, finding suitable habitats, training the farmers, training technicians, and designing the pens. They have received support from the EU and, for the past six years, from the Norwegian NGO, Norges Vel.
The sea cucumber farmers, who are given 30
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“Aquaculture has helped to both alleviate poverty and conserve the precious marine environment
per cent of their juveniles for free, grow them from about three months in pens they have built themselves in the sheltered warm waters of the bay in the Mozambique Channel. Since sea cucumbers feed off the ocean floor, the process requires no feed - but it does require patience. As Fran says, it is sometimes hard maintaining motivation with sea cucumber farming. ‘It takes approximately 12 months for your first return on investment – which is the length of time it takes the juvenile sea cucumbers to grow to the right size to sell,’ she says. ‘This is a fishing community so they’re
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