Landed catch data
A separate study was conducted to examine the composition, body sizes, catch volume and fishing effort of fishing campaigns by the fishers. We conducted 54 visits to make these measurements on batches of harvested sea cucumbers, and tried to partition the visits equitably among the regions in which the population surveys were conducted. The visits were facilitated by (1) travelling with processors to the fishing communities to measure catches at the point of first sale, (2) going to
processors at the time when they received harvested sea cucumbers, or (3) visiting fishers after they had spent one or more days harvesting sea cucumbers.