KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 — A burgeoning online trade of sea cucumber and fish maw in Malaysia and Singapore as well as high levels of international trafficking could endanger their populations if regulators do not step up scrutiny and control, a report by a wildlife trade monitoring network has found.
In its report, Traffic noted that the online trade it monitored was legal, but there were several threatened species and internationally regulated species of sea cucumber and fish maw on sale. They included Carousell, Shopee, Facebook, as well as businesses such as Apollo Marine and Emperor Brand in Singapore and LSK Fishery in Malaysia.
For example, three sea cucumber species protected under Malaysian and Singaporean regulations appeared in 21 online advertisements and posts. They were the holothuria fuscogilva, holothuria nobilis and holothuria whitmaei species. Regardless, there is an increasing trend of illegal fish maw trade, driven by high demand for the product in Asia. This has caused an overfishing of fish species that are targeted for their maw, such as the Chinese bahaba.
It also proposed that they introduce a tracing system to verify that only legal and sustainable products were supplied in the market. These products can be labelled to ensure that consumers are fully aware of the source of their purchases.
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