The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) based in Tigbauan, Iloilo, has developed sea cucumber hatchery and nursery technologies that could eventually enable local entrepreneurs to grow sea cucumbers commercially. The SEAFDEC nursery was inaugurated last April and the Center's larval rearing trials produced more than 26,000 juveniles from eight of The tanks under operation. Most of this produce, however, is used by SEAFDEC and its visiting researchers in their studies.

Sea cucumber technology. (2010, December 30). Manila Bulletin, p. B-6.