date:May 05, 2014
to his Chinese buyers and Sierra Leonean middlemen.
The going price is 150,000 Leones ($35) for a 7-kg (15-pound) bucket. How much they are resold for is not clear but Selina Stead, professor of Marine Governance and Environmental Science at Newcastle University, said by the time they reach the wholesale markets of Guangzhou, dried sea cucumbers similar to the Sierra Leone variety can fetch as much as $133 a kg.
DECAY AND RUST
Sierra Leone's government says conditions are generally improving