The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has been
carrying out research on sea-cucumbers for the past 30 years on
various aspects such as taxonomy, biology, ecology, zoogeography,
toxicology, breeding and seed production in hatchery and culture.
Unfortunately upto the present time there is no Hand-book on Indian
Sea-cucumbers which is very much wanted by persons who are
involved in the collection, processing and export, to identify
commercially important species. Particularly when an unfamiliar
species is collected they are at a loss to know whether it can be
processed, if so what is the processing method. Different species of
sea-cucumbers have to be processed in different ways. The local
people are ignorant of the correct processing methods for various
species
