KOTA KINABALU: The Borneo Green
Aquaculture Sdn Bhd is in the process of boosting its present capacity
of producing 250,000 juvenile sea cucumbers per month to 500,000 per
month in order to meet the market demand, disclosed its financial
advisor Lee Sun Sui.
Now the company is aggressively doing research and development in
growout techniques in Kudat, he said, adding that the company is also
planning to set up a processing plant in the district to process
smoke-dried sea cucumber for export purposes.
“So far, we have released 200,000 juveniles into growout test sites.
The results have been very encouraging. Further experiments are
currently being carried out to optimise culture conditions and
production,” he said when met at the state-level Sabah Farmers,
Livestock Breeders and Fishermen Day at KPD marketing complex at Tanjung Lipat.
The company incorporated in Malaysia and a member of the Borneo
Green Group of Companies was invited to showcase their technologies for
the breeding, seed production and culture of sea cucumbers (holothuria
scabra species).
The company’s only hatchery complex in Sabandar, Tuaran commenced
its operation in April 2011 and only achieved its successful spawning
later in October, he shared.
Lee noted that there is an urgent need for developing the technology for seed production and culture of sea cucumbers in Sabah.
“The present work undertaken by the company could play a vital role
in providing social and economic stability to the industry players and
fishermen as excessive fishing has dwindled the stocks of wild sea
cucumbers drastically, and this could affect the ecosystem and the
adjacent marine environment,” he said.
He said sea cucumbers are widely consumed throughout Asia and the
Middle East as it provides health and medicinal benefits including the
prevention and treatment of disease.
It is now one of the world’s fastest growing international seafood
industries and the demand for sea cucumbers is outgrown its production,
he said.
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