China's hunger for sea cucumbers reaches islands of Sierra Leone
date:May 05, 2014
cucumber has pushed us forward, he said.

Diving must take place in the dark, when the slug-like echinoderms emerge from their daytime resting places.

The sea cucumber knows only darkness, said Lord Moe.

Every night during the season - which depends on the tides and light from the moon - Matthew Ray pushes off with a team of divers in a rickety, brightly painted canoe from a beach beneath a towering cotton tree.

After a half-hour boat-ride through water glowing yellow with bio-luminescence he
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