Editing Sea cucumber (section)

===Aquaculture===
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[[Overexploitation]] of sea cucumber stocks in many parts of the world provided motivation for the development of sea cucumber [[aquaculture]] in the early 1980s. The Chinese and Japanese were the first to develop successful hatchery technology on ''[[Apostichopus japonicus]]'', prized for its high meat content and success in commercial hatcheries.<ref name="Baskar">James, B. D. (2004).[http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5501e/y5501e17.htm Captive breeding of the sea cucumber, ''Holothuria scabra'', from India]. In Lovatelli, A. (comp./ed.); Conand, C.; Purcell, S.; Uthicke, S.; Hamel, J.-F.; Mercier, A. (eds.) ''Advances in sea cucumber aquaculture and management''. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 463. Rome, FAO. 2004.425p.</ref> Using techniques pioneered by the Chinese and Japanese, a second species, ''[[Holothuria scabra]]'', was cultured for the first time in India in 1988.<ref name="james">James, D. B., Gandhi, A. D., Palaniswamy, N., & Rodrigo, J. X. (1994).[http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/3452/Hatchery Techniques and Culture of the Sea-cucumber ''Holothuria scabra'']. CMFRI Special Publication(57),1-40.</ref> In recent years Australia, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Maldives, Solomon Islands and Vietnam have successfully cultured ''H. scabra'' using the same technology, and now culture other species.<ref name="Baskar" />