@@jinvonastrea1141 Capitalism isn't supply and demand, that's Free Market Economy. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production, instead of state-owned (government owned-) / publically owned (the public owned-) or corporate owned (although most corporations are "privately owned" as soon as they sell shares of their company publically ie. "going public" on the stock market, allowing anyone and everyone to own a part of the company by choice making them factually publically owned) means of production, which would be socialism. I read this misconception soooo many times and it really hurts my brain when Capitalism is again blamed for things that aren't even it's fault. All a capitalist wants is to own his own company, or maybe a family owned company where he owns the machinery and raw materials/resources to produce the product for profit. All those animals, plants, whatever living being that is exploited and hunted until extinction? That's on human greed. The "look they are eating X so we have to try X now too!" or "look, everyone bought a Y so we have to buy a Y as well!"
I love how cheerful your youthful Zillennial voiceover sounds while she convinces us how super fun, cool, and quirky it is to treat living, near-endangered animals like sea cucumbers like a commodity and nothing more
@@leonzhu5452 Sea Cucumbers subsist off of nothing but literal shit on the bottom of the sea floor, and taste exactly like what they eat. So I think you're lying.
@@Jordan-wc6nhIt tastes like nothing actually. The thing by itself is bland. Kinda falls down in the same category of shark fin. Majority of the taste that is associated with dishes cooked with this ingredient do not come from the sea cucumber/shark fin itself. The fact these things are just tasteless is also the reason why they have a tendency to be in stews with extremely rich-tasting stock. People eat them mostly for the texture and sometimes for the allegedly health benefit. You can find a lot of similar things in East Asian or even South East Asian cuisine. People sometimes eat things because they r fun to bite into/chew on, not necessarily because they have some otherworldly taste of their own.
Came to the comments after that sentence. This is a trend in this video series that I've noticed like with the stone claw crabs..."Population is dropping drastically leading to even more problems harvesting [substance]...oh and also they're going extinct."
I'm sorry that you may not have liked that dish, but seriously this thing just tastes bland without sauce its not disgusting.This thing absorbs sauce extremely well, and the worst thing that could happen is that it becomes too salty. It is impossible for this dish to taste "disgusting" (well, unless they ducked up the sauce)
@@sakatagintoki5562 your right.. I just rewatched the video. At 3:15 its saying the amount of sea cucumbers are getting less, pretty much.. ugh makes me mad. Humans are the main reasons why so many things are gone...
@@firuu645 I'm not sure. Farming might not be as healthy as being in their natural environment.. also we need them in the oceans to clean our ocean... I think it would be a good idea for them to farm the ones they want to eat and not hunt the ones in the ocean so it could populate. 😊
I used to seeing them everywhere in Greece as a kid. Never thought to myself wow these look tasty or expensive. Also how do people risk their lives to catch them? They are just sitting there close to shore just grab them with your hand.
@@flamevix Lmao. 9 million people a year die of starvation, I’m pretty sure if there were lots of business opportunities for them they’d take them. But wen you’re brought up in a crumbling nation and shiting in holes in the ground there aren’t that many opportunities for people.
Just so you know. Depends on how you cook it. By itself, it tastes bland. They are usually simmered with tasty soup or stir fried with other ingredients and sauce it up. It just tastes like jello with a fishy taste and texture. It looks gross, but the health benefits of eating these are well known. That being said, I think the high price will only drive it to near extinction, if strict harvesting regulations are not put in place. It's already showing decline in numbers.
@@fluffypenguin6695 wft such a fragile creature they should left alone at least 10 to 20 year's to regrowth their population i cant denied we need them for medicine but we need to stop consuming them for food when their on a brick of extinction. Right?
Its called learning from life. There is health in every nutritious meals. It benefits everyone eating certain food ingredients that have nutritional values like the sea cucumber.
Animals would do the same if they could, in fact they already do, they just don't have the ability to do it massively, unless it somehow gets into a place in which it's presence can bring other animals into extincion.
Millennial Travel Confessions i went snorkelling in japan too, in okinawa with my uncle that lives there. i saw about 3 and didnt say anything, i dont want to sell the poor creature it deserves to stay there even if i could re-vamp my entire room with the price of one
I went to China on a business trip once. I met a client, who was very wealthy, for dinner at his house and part of the meal was sea cucumber soup which had one of these Japanese sea cucumbers floating around. Obviously I ate it and it didn’t really taste like anything haha.
There was heaps of these at a certain local beach in the Philippines. Now recently I came back there and they're very rare now, along with sea urchins. I remember maybe around 2007 the locals did a massive harvest of sea urchins, the water was red. Now they're only here and there, not abundant
Yall missing out lmao. Sea cucumbers are used to treat acne/pimples, can be extract as a medicine for cold, cramps, and you can have it as a warm soup with chicken bits and eggs and it taste like mushrooms.
@@MakeYourDay_Good the fisherman might not have a choice, in some places jobs are really really scarce and you’ll take what you can get. Also I’m pretty sure everyone, especially these fisher man care about their paycheck, $10 definitely isn’t a lot, and think about all the bills and other expenses they have to pay. There are definitely lots of issues in the industry
See that's THE LIE. Because they actually AREN'T EXPENSIVE. We have plenty in Australia and export them to china. You can eat them at restaurants here and they're not very expensive. But they taste TERRIBLE. like rotten seaweed.
@@ZhuGeLiang6969 There's MILLIONS of them here in Australia and they're WORTH NOTHING which proves that you believe all this crap. The Chinese will eat anything and sea cucumber tastes like rotten seaweed. They're not in short supply because ONLY CHINESE would eat something that bad.
You guys don't understand that we are also animals too? Species go exist all throughout history with or without our intervention. survival of the fittest, foid chain etc
I went to Bermuda when I was a child. There, I was able to hold a sea cucumber while at a touch area of an aquarium. It was such a fun experience, my parents couldn’t pull me away! They were soft, almost like a putty, and really just a fascinating little guy. Hope we can find a way to balance their potential medical value with their inherent value as beautiful creatures!
I remember as a young child my siblings and I would often go to the beach and would pick them up to play with them and put them back when we left. Never would have thought they were worth so much.
lodie ngojo totoo dito samin banda sa Gensan at Sarangani binabalewala lang nila yan, nanguha kami during low tide wala naman kaming idea pano kainin binalik nalang namin sa tubig
@BrianByonVEVO The $3000 japanese sea cucumbers are endangered and very rare , you will probably never find one , but regular sea cucumber only sells for $20-50/pound so it's still valuable enough to keep and get some beer money
- Schattenpflanze - how’s it a fact? you can’t assume what every asians’ diet is. im Chinese and i don’t eat like half of what white people think chinese eat
Did you watched the whole video? Parmaceutical companies are using them to creat various medicine/drugs and one of them is a drug used to treat "cancer". Thus making their value rise up in the market aside from being a delicacy.
Because Demand = More Work = More Money it's a basic economy the higher the demand the higher the price. we need the money to preserve it, if we keep exploiting it, it'll go extinct. It takes 1 whole day to farm for 8 gram gold nugget. and it will be valued 80 bucks, would you want to do that work and sell it cheaper to us the consumer?
It is expensive because sea cucumber oil is like a miracle oil that works almost immediately and helps reduce pain and inflammation for numerous problems. I have bought sea cucumber oil once upon a time and everyone who I have given it has been baffled. But now that I know how much we are damaging them and their species I will no longer buy this oil.
its not going to have a great effect. Honest the saw a 90% decline from a catch of only a couple hundred tons. Seriousy, 260 tons. Tuna for example is 5 million tons per year. 5 million. there are basically zero cucumbers, so nothing relies on them.
Its like eating cartilage i think. But it depends on its kind there are liquid type that look like a slime. And if you eat it youre like eating a saliva.
prices only rose 17% but supplies dropped 95%.......am I missing something Edit- I got it, in Mexico only. But that still means farming must be having a huge impact since I would have guessed population drops would have affected all regions.
@@xfireprince2411 I get that now, but I still find that odd. Only Mexico suffered declines that high? The rest of the world hasn't? From the tone of the video everyone was over....fishing?...them. so I would have expected a higher than 14% price increase
Here in the Philippines you just walk by the beach and find sea cucumbers. They're everywhere. You pick it up and eat them straight or with vinegar. I don't eat them though. But when I decide to, maaan I'd feel a hundred bucks. I'm never gonna look at them the same way again.
@Tong X im not saying its just asians. Im pointing out to everyone. Like just eat highly populated animal or atleast try to produce more sea cucumbers like a farm ._. They're necessary for the ocean
Unfortunatly we humans will eat and hunt about everything that lives walks flys crawl andd swims ...ya know people get bored by same food so they eat new stuff...give me chicken and bacon n beef keep the rest ...
The next video will be "What it take to grow a pound of beef". If you think about it, growing a pound of beef consumes substantially more resources than a Pound of Chicken.
Y’all, I am asian XD This was a joke, I’ve eaten Sea cucumber, octopus, pork brain, chicken feet, pufferfish, and other weird things! I understand not all asian countries do it but mainly South-East/Eastern Asia still do. I’m Viet-Cambodian.
8in indonesia, its called "teripang" we often make it like a chips. And it's so cheap here. Just around 1$ for each hundred grams. But tbh i don't know if its the same "sea cucumber" as u guys think
I remember there's alot of these in beaches during my childhood in the Philippines. I got to be scared by how it looks and so I just watch it move not picking them up. More than its price, it's a treasured memory for me.
You would have to find some pretty rare sea cucumbers in Japan and southeast Asia, regular sea cucumbers sell for $100/kilo but the super spiked japanese ones with crazy colors that you find in the shallow water will maybe go for $3000/kilo but those are incredibly rare and not to mention endangered , hence the price still good money if you find a couple of them and sell them , and easy $200/day
I remember in the 90's I could see thousands of Sea Cucumbers in the beaches where I live, I don't even have to walk far from the shore to see one, Now I am lucky if I could see one.
They live in saltwater, which leads me to believe they should be called Sea Pickles.
that's actually not dumb
Well played Sir
pickles are like baby salted cucumbers so...
faroshscale haha
@GamingTV no if they live in salt water they can't be slugs salt damages slugs and snails
1)take cucumber
2)throw in the sea and let sit 2 weeks
3)??
4)profit
Haha omg
Wrong but super funny
wouldn't that make it a pickle tho?
😂👏🏼😂👏🏼😂👏🏼
Claudio Andrei 😂😂👍🏼
and thats how an endangered species is made
Merlin rich people kill them
Facts
And pollution for othe animals
*other
I didn't know that. Thanks for the education. My learning curve looks much better now.
I love that the main problem of us making more and more species extinct is that they get more expensive because they're getting rare.
Supply and demand aka Capitalism
And for what? Rubbing them on your joints to fix arthritis? lol
@@jinvonastrea1141 Capitalism isn't supply and demand, that's Free Market Economy. Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production, instead of state-owned (government owned-) / publically owned (the public owned-) or corporate owned (although most corporations are "privately owned" as soon as they sell shares of their company publically ie. "going public" on the stock market, allowing anyone and everyone to own a part of the company by choice making them factually publically owned) means of production, which would be socialism.
I read this misconception soooo many times and it really hurts my brain when Capitalism is again blamed for things that aren't even it's fault. All a capitalist wants is to own his own company, or maybe a family owned company where he owns the machinery and raw materials/resources to produce the product for profit.
All those animals, plants, whatever living being that is exploited and hunted until extinction? That's on human greed. The "look they are eating X so we have to try X now too!" or "look, everyone bought a Y so we have to buy a Y as well!"
its typically 1 or 2 countries that force this crap cause of their magical fake medicines n other lala land crap.
@@freshnorthwest6756 one or two? How about more than half of all countries push psychological remedies. Now that I think about it, all of them do.
Who was the one who looked in the ocean. Saw one of those things...and decided to just eat it?
Hector Cabrera Chinese
Bear Grylls
😂😂😂 Right!!!!
The Cantonese especially. There's a saying in Cantonese, "If its back faces the sky, it's edible".
Dr.Science both...
i swear there’s an expert for everything, there’s probably an expert for the piece of dust under your cabinet
could you be uneducated more silently
The Vacuum
mee sou he has a phd
mee sou Ok mister yale
@@MisuOfArabonaClan ok mister Cambridge.
No one at elementary school.
8 years old Steven Purcell : I'll be the best sea cucumber expert.
WolraadWoltemade 1652 yes
Jajajjaa lmao
His father, expert for regular rocks:
"Didnt know I raised a failure."
@WolraadWoltemade 1652 I prefer spanking
😂😂
Once I touched one and they are hypnotizingly soft. I sat there with my hand in 30 degree water for 20 minutes fondling a giant sea slug
That's just weird
@@someguy8732 You’d understand
Water freezes at 32 degrees genius
@@BugOnAChip civilized people use celsius genius
@@BugOnAChip wader
If it moves, It is edible - Chinese
Lol
Chinese don't eat horses and that's about it.
@@almac9203 Chinese are just not picky eaters.
_Classic china_
this comment is underrated
"they are so expensive,people would risk their lives to get hold of one"
*Shows a man diving down, grabbing one and casually going up*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or what lol! U want them to show a man who dives deep and then dies??😂😂😂
@Alen Horiba 😂😂😂
Then you try. That's like a couple hundred meters below surface. These guys are skilled divers without even the right equipment.
@Alex Tremo most exotic sea cucumbers don't just lie around near the shore. They usually live like 50 meters below the ocean floor
"What's the WiFi password?"
"It's on the back of the router."
Back of the router: 2:15
😂
Well, this one actually deserves more likes😂😂
This joke is worth than the sea cucumber itself
@FBI ima call the cia on you
Overused joke
I love how cheerful your youthful Zillennial voiceover sounds while she convinces us how super fun, cool, and quirky it is to treat living, near-endangered animals like sea cucumbers like a commodity and nothing more
Yeah cause its just cucumbers. So why care about them?
Your point? It taste good and I’m gonna continue eating it
@@leonzhu5452 Sea Cucumbers subsist off of nothing but literal shit on the bottom of the sea floor, and taste exactly like what they eat. So I think you're lying.
@@Jordan-wc6nh you wouldn’t know unless you try it yourself, taste is subjective
@@Jordan-wc6nhIt tastes like nothing actually. The thing by itself is bland.
Kinda falls down in the same category of shark fin. Majority of the taste that is associated with dishes cooked with this ingredient do not come from the sea cucumber/shark fin itself.
The fact these things are just tasteless is also the reason why they have a tendency to be in stews with extremely rich-tasting stock. People eat them mostly for the texture and sometimes for the allegedly health benefit.
You can find a lot of similar things in East Asian or even South East Asian cuisine. People sometimes eat things because they r fun to bite into/chew on, not necessarily because they have some otherworldly taste of their own.
your telling me a long fat stick sometimes with things poking out of it is more expensive than my computer?
Cheap pc m8
Its 2000
Computers dont take 2-6 years to reach a marketable size and you dont have to go dive for them on the ocean floor
@@G5xgajsjY793 but you do have to update them and they can stimulate a cumber
A life vs silicone and plastic.
funny how harming the ecosystem wasn't once mentioned as a problem
asians can get away with stuff that europeans can't. imagine an english chef serving bluefin tuna in london?
They want the video available in China and if you mention the Chinese government is destroying the planet they’ll hunt you like a dog
@Ford Mustang GT selfish way of thinking
@Ford Mustang GT and you are proud of that? Disgusting
Ford Mustang GT i can concur, the planet can go to hell as long as i stay alive lol
"The more they're harvested the rarer and more expensive they become"
I think you got your priorities wrong
Even I as a mafia boss, agree with you
Even I as a melon, agree with you
Nice diavolo is here
Came to the comments after that sentence. This is a trend in this video series that I've noticed like with the stone claw crabs..."Population is dropping drastically leading to even more problems harvesting [substance]...oh and also they're going extinct."
@@dokaplan1 it really is saddening, the human greed knows no bounds
They didn't. They're emphasizing that the rarer they become, the bigger the incentives to fish them. It's a feedback loop.
I ate one of these at a fancy wedding in HK and it's gotta be the most disgusting thing I've ever had the misfortune of eating!
Go eat your hamburger and fries then.
I'm sorry that you may not have liked that dish, but seriously this thing just tastes bland without sauce its not disgusting.This thing absorbs sauce extremely well, and the worst thing that could happen is that it becomes too salty. It is impossible for this dish to taste "disgusting" (well, unless they ducked up the sauce)
My Dad Tried It He Said It Was Normal But I Am Still Disgusted
@@zulkifli2038 chill lmao, he's probably just not used to it just like how many asians aren't used to western dishes
I never knew these things cost a lot I'm shocked
Alternate title: "How many times can we show you the same 5 sea cucumbers in a blue bucket and get away with it? Click to find out!"
Emily G Trying To stretch out two minutes worth of material
I also wonder why
Three
Was hoping someone would comment this...!
There is also a shortage of sea cucumber bucket footage reels. It's getting harder to shoot them down each year without pucket guns.
Sea cucumbers also cleans the oceans. It has many benefits for our waters.. I hope it doesn't goes extinct..😭
It won't go, as people see a benefit to it.
@@BlacknWhitePhoenix I hope your right.🙂
Humans are assholes.
Sea Cucumbers could be extinct at any moment.
It's sad but it's true. ☹
@@sakatagintoki5562 your right.. I just rewatched the video. At 3:15 its saying the amount of sea cucumbers are getting less, pretty much.. ugh makes me mad. Humans are the main reasons why so many things are gone...
@@firuu645 I'm not sure. Farming might not be as healthy as being in their natural environment.. also we need them in the oceans to clean our ocean... I think it would be a good idea for them to farm the ones they want to eat and not hunt the ones in the ocean so it could populate. 😊
Shit, can’t believe I once stepped on 3000$ while walking in the sea
You walked on a kilo of sea cucumber?
Crap!!!
@@eeveevulpix4141 how are you a eevee vulpix
@Penguins Rule there goes a new shipping
@Penguins Rule also i see what you mean there's tons of furry artwork of those two pokemon
I used to seeing them everywhere in Greece as a kid. Never thought to myself wow these look tasty or expensive. Also how do people risk their lives to catch them? They are just sitting there close to shore just grab them with your hand.
They explained it is because they're becoming harder to find so people are diving deeper and risking the bends
But don't they shit their organs out if you touch them?
@@komradentomolog7701 what no? they just spit out really sticky stuff
@@swarmeddan1836 i was always taught that they shit out their organs and that they regenerate.
@@komradentomolog7701 there is a worm type creature that does that, just not this one here.
Because there are more uses with a sea cucumber
lol
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*insert Lenny face*
Lol
‘
My big sister must really like sea cucumbers. She has a battery powered one in her nightstand drawer.
kimmer6 hey kimmer?
Is it fishy? If it is then it is really a sea cucumber. Try to smell it
Good one😉
jason, it smells like a shithouse door off a tuna boat.
@@kimmer6 umm..
Every time I hear "they are about to go extinct" I always respond with "Then stop."
..... and then families in developing nations begin to starve to death because they can’t get enough money to feed themselves.
@@joshbentley2307 There are always other ways.
@@flamevix Lmao. 9 million people a year die of starvation, I’m pretty sure if there were lots of business opportunities for them they’d take them.
But wen you’re brought up in a crumbling nation and shiting in holes in the ground there aren’t that many opportunities for people.
@@joshbentley2307 sea cucumbers aren’t their only sources of food but I hear your point
@@kirbed9486 😂
They aren’t eating the sea cucumbers! There selling them to get rice, bread, fruits ECT.
Imagine diving for a sea pickle that turns out to be a old turd and then drowning because u went too deep
Turds float..
Its not drowning, its the bends from pressure
I dont see myself ever wanting to eat these 😬
Just so you know.
Depends on how you cook it. By itself, it tastes bland. They are usually simmered with tasty soup or stir fried with other ingredients and sauce it up. It just tastes like jello with a fishy taste and texture. It looks gross, but the health benefits of eating these are well known. That being said, I think the high price will only drive it to near extinction, if strict harvesting regulations are not put in place. It's already showing decline in numbers.
@@peteryeung111 good to know there are wild ones where I live and i have touched one before. Did you know they puke there guts when they get scared?
@@fluffypenguin6695 wft such a fragile creature they should left alone at least 10 to 20 year's to regrowth their population i cant denied we need them for medicine but we need to stop consuming them for food when their on a brick of extinction. Right?
Amen to that,I don’t care what they cook it in 🤮
Yah they are disgusting slugs
Sea cucumbers exist: .......
Humans: They look tasty
Sea cucumber: Uh oh
Like with any food
that was really bad
not funny
Chinese*
Pew good thing Muslims don't eat like so weird things no offence just saying .................I am OK with chicken 🐔
Is that Kevin from SpongeBob?? That green one with glasses and the crown.
Yes
I really thought Kevin was a pickle 💀
touch
- Patrick
Omg lol
Yes
In Asia, literally anything that breathes is a delicacy
Lol truly said but this thing looks disgusting. Idk why would anyone eat this ?
In *China
And Europe
@@sallylemon5835 well Thailand is pretty damn bad so you have to include it
Some literally call this innocent LIVING creature
"Cucumber"-A SALAD🥗
Animal: *exists
Humans: let's kill it for its magical powers!
Its called learning from life. There is health in every nutritious meals. It benefits everyone eating certain food ingredients that have nutritional values like the sea cucumber.
@@motorola9956 its called creating lies
@@ygotsvlog3762 no
@@motorola9956 well youre right there, but humans are greedy. the video said that in mexico the harvest drops so low ita was very rare to find one
Animals would do the same if they could, in fact they already do, they just don't have the ability to do it massively, unless it somehow gets into a place in which it's presence can bring other animals into extincion.
So that’s why Spongebob idolized Kevin so much
Hey
Hiiii, Kevin
😂😂😂
Hollyshhhh it Make sense now 🤣
Calling a sea worm sea cucumber WTF why we don’t call earth warms land bananas
Because they're not technically worms, they're more closely related to starfish.
hahahahah😂😂 thats exactly what i was thinking? at first i thought they were talking about normal cucumbers
Oh man you got me
🤣🤣🤣
@@digiquo8143 then they should be called star-cucumbers
"It wasn't until the 1980's..."
Displays a black and white picture 😭
Yea like we didn’t have technicolor back then yet? 😞😫😤
2:18 Pretty sure sea cucumbers aren't going to fix that guys "joint problems".
I don’t get it
@@haloskaterkid look at his left hand or lack of one
See you in hell
I know I shouldn't laugh, but... 😂
And his joint also looks like a sea cucumber
Noice
Omg we saw these when we went snorkelling in Japan! Can't believe how expensive there are!
You should've grabbed a few, I'm sure your vacation would've been covered😉
Millennial Travel Confessions i went snorkelling in japan too, in okinawa with my uncle that lives there. i saw about 3 and didnt say anything, i dont want to sell the poor creature it deserves to stay there even if i could re-vamp my entire room with the price of one
Hmm...
Maybe you should check local animal protection laws...
I heard that the Fukushima radiation spills contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean.
It may be just a regular poop from a fisherman.
I went to China on a business trip once. I met a client, who was very wealthy, for dinner at his house and part of the meal was sea cucumber soup which had one of these Japanese sea cucumbers floating around. Obviously I ate it and it didn’t really taste like anything haha.
lol
Tastes like chicken
R/that happend
it usually tastes like anything you added such as salt, sugar, spice, etc. because it actually tastes bland
Idk if I could do it. I don't like tough chewy meat.
There was heaps of these at a certain local beach in the Philippines. Now recently I came back there and they're very rare now, along with sea urchins. I remember maybe around 2007 the locals did a massive harvest of sea urchins, the water was red. Now they're only here and there, not abundant
They look so gross! Could never imagine eating them!
Looks creepy
Taste jelly
Yall missing out lmao. Sea cucumbers are used to treat acne/pimples, can be extract as a medicine for cold, cramps, and you can have it as a warm soup with chicken bits and eggs and it taste like mushrooms.
@kxr No, Sea snails are sea slugs.
GamingTV I had them before and I honestly don’t really like them lol
Sea cucumbers also play a role in maintaining the ecosystem balance, specifically for pH level of the water and for the growth of hard corals as well
Stop lying they are only 150 bells in Aninal Crossing
And that’s dirt cheap
Haha 😂
Snoi Med the sad thing is after 1 hour after getting a enchantment table I almost got a stack
Some people have way too much money to spend
You sure those arent whale poops?
Mash Z whale poop is worth even more lmao..
Wow.
Whale poops?!
Whale poop is 68k a kilo lol
Sir I'm looking serious buyer we have a cucumber for sale I'm from Philippines
Can we talk about how the fisherman are probably getting payed less than $10
No one is forcing them to fish
Edit: also they probably love what they do and don’t care how much they’re payed
@@MakeYourDay_Good the fisherman might not have a choice, in some places jobs are really really scarce and you’ll take what you can get. Also I’m pretty sure everyone, especially these fisher man care about their paycheck, $10 definitely isn’t a lot, and think about all the bills and other expenses they have to pay. There are definitely lots of issues in the industry
@@allisonarts7540 10 dollars might not be a lot where you and I live but it could be a decent amount where they live
@@allisonarts7540 so because there are no other jobs. Magically the remaining jobs can pay more?
you can feed your family for a week in some countries with $10
Why is everything Japanese have to be expensive 😂
Including the olympics 😂
Pretentious aristocracy
@@kiren3168 meaning?
@@abhinavbharadwaj9620 meaning they pretend to be the masters of whatever they do.
Am I the only person noticing the importance of the sea cucumber itself is being ignored in this article until the last 10 seconds?
It's a sea turd
Benjamin Gautier An expensive sea turd
I was thinking that too.
It looks like a turd
@@theboyntonbuddies
Asians will eat anything
@@APEX-qv7rm sounds pretty racist to me, time to report
I once saw a wierd sea cucumber and just poked it
It's a snake! But weird....
don't do that again next time, it could be poisonous.
you could have been rich...
If I saw that dragon one I’d Lowkey take it
which end did you poke it in?
Would you recommend?
Here in my island in the Maldives, if people come to know about the price of a sea cucumber, they'd become extinct within days.
well u just invited people to go there.... delete this comment ASAP.. 😢
Thanks. I just let my employers know.
See that's THE LIE. Because they actually AREN'T EXPENSIVE. We have plenty in Australia and export them to china. You can eat them at restaurants here and they're not very expensive. But they taste TERRIBLE. like rotten seaweed.
@@ZhuGeLiang6969 There's MILLIONS of them here in Australia and they're WORTH NOTHING which proves that you believe all this crap. The Chinese will eat anything and sea cucumber tastes like rotten seaweed. They're not in short supply because ONLY CHINESE would eat something that bad.
@@soulfreaz and they'll find out they're not worth much and you can get tinned ones from Australia.
Asian: eats weird animals, insects and plants for health benefits
Americans: uses weird animals , insects and plants for r&d of medicine
We just keep on finding a way to screw with every animal.
If only we could drop a few nukes on the most populated human civilizations now.
We are literally Earth's sixth mass extinction event. Humans are a plague. We're wiping out all life on the planet.
TheRobloxNoob I agree because take one animal out and it effects the whole food chain
They should be farmed and harvested. This could be a food source for important ocean wildlife.
You guys don't understand that we are also animals too? Species go exist all throughout history with or without our intervention. survival of the fittest, foid chain etc
0:02 "Cucumbers usually cost around 3 dollars a kilo"
*shows 1 dollar*
Under not around
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I completely saw that as $3
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Just call em sea pickles man.
Its a Sea Penis
Sea tube
Seanis
@@siyacer, 🤣🤣🤣
@@siyacer this is pretty funny lmao
In Asia, particular in malaysia, we used it as minyak gamat to treat wounds. also, some said it could also helps in atherosclerosis treatment
I thought the beginning cucumbers in the water were sea cucumbers
Sme
Wholesome Lad same
No those are land cucumbers. They dont even have eyes *or* an anus.
me too🙄🙄🙄🙄
Yeah those are some weird cucumbers
Call me crazy, but sea cucumbers are adorable...
they spit from they're anus XD OH SO ADORABLE no but i do like them too
U r right, I look close to them.
@@7mdeez872 why you calling me
Wrong
Oh
I went to Bermuda when I was a child. There, I was able to hold a sea cucumber while at a touch area of an aquarium. It was such a fun experience, my parents couldn’t pull me away! They were soft, almost like a putty, and really just a fascinating little guy. Hope we can find a way to balance their potential medical value with their inherent value as beautiful creatures!
@@lofimiata And they aren't beautiful either. Sea cucumbers? More like alien sea slugs.
@@2hot2handle65 They are, see some sea cucumber species on Google
i just realized i had this for breakfast maybe twice a week for as long as i can remember
I remember as a young child my siblings and I would often go to the beach and would pick them up to play with them and put them back when we left. Never would have thought they were worth so much.
The sea cucumbers while the kids are holding them:
Internal screaming
Same except me and my brother would just dump it on the sand when it’s time to leave
There are so many here in the Philippines. We just ignore it
ignore it ka jan punta ka sa amin sa masbate binibilad yan at iniexport
One of many reasons why China wants to take our sea
I went to Lady Musgrave (I think I spelt that wrong) a couple years back and there was quite a few
lodie ngojo totoo dito samin banda sa Gensan at Sarangani binabalewala lang nila yan, nanguha kami during low tide wala naman kaming idea pano kainin binalik nalang namin sa tubig
Damn I caught one when fishing one time and threw it back... of course I see this after that😂
Okay.
@BrianByonVEVO The $3000 japanese sea cucumbers are endangered and very rare , you will probably never find one , but regular sea cucumber only sells for $20-50/pound so it's still valuable enough to keep and get some beer money
Lmao
You a liar!!!
I poked a Hole in one when i was 6
2:20 "..to treat joint problems" shows a guy with no hand. Well played.
Rare animals: exists*
Asains: cowabunga it is!
Bro can you respect asians tbh
Can u not be racist to asians
@@iron8136 its not racist it's a fact, Chinese eat everything even other Chinese people
- Schattenpflanze - how’s it a fact? you can’t assume what every asians’ diet is. im Chinese and i don’t eat like half of what white people think chinese eat
Jordan is he lying?
RIP Kevin the sea cucumber.
😂
Now I'm stuck with his laugh in my head at 2 30am thanks lol
Sea cucumbers may be expensive, but their still a lot cheaper than having a girlfriend
Not that I would know, I still haven't had a girlfriend yet ...
It is
True that
Wait what...what does a sea cucumber have to do with girlfriens unless you um...
You are wrong. Wife is more expensive.
You’re telling me I had a 3,000 pet as a kid that I found from the sea in Mexico
It's just an oversized water poop what's everyone so excited about?
( Just a joke not meant to offend anyone especially if it really can cure cancer )
Did you watched the whole video? Parmaceutical companies are using them to creat various medicine/drugs and one of them is a drug used to treat "cancer". Thus making their value rise up in the market aside from being a delicacy.
@Michael Jayson Banua
It still looks like crap
@@michaeljaysonbanua4870 r/woosh
Good one...!
They clean our oceans, their home you know...the thing that gives us the most oxygen, nothing too crazy.
Why is it so expensive? Only 1 reason... Because people are stupid enough to pay that much for it...
question your answer.
Because
Demand = More Work = More Money
it's a basic economy the higher the demand the higher the price. we need the money to preserve it, if we keep exploiting it, it'll go extinct.
It takes 1 whole day to farm for 8 gram gold nugget. and it will be valued 80 bucks, would you want to do that work and sell it cheaper to us the consumer?
It is expensive because sea cucumber oil is like a miracle oil that works almost immediately and helps reduce pain and inflammation for numerous problems. I have bought sea cucumber oil once upon a time and everyone who I have given it has been baffled. But now that I know how much we are damaging them and their species I will no longer buy this oil.
DrGeneralkumar82 because of Supply & Demand didn’t you take economics?
Wrong,watch the video
Why think of the danger on the divers? What about how it impacts the marine ecology?
They are not thinking about you
Aint nobody worried about all that.
Miguel Ungson both at least should be a time when they cant fish them
@@leodarknesshelm they should be though
its not going to have a great effect.
Honest the saw a 90% decline from a catch of only a couple hundred tons.
Seriousy, 260 tons. Tuna for example is 5 million tons per year.
5 million.
there are basically zero cucumbers, so nothing relies on them.
God: creates the earth
People: oh a cow let's eat it
God: sigh
People: a random ass thing in the sea let's eat it
love how they're talking about how expensive they are and i got one thrown at me when i went diving 😭
Bro same. I remember swimming where I'm from and seeing the bottom FILLED with these
lol yeah there are tons of them
Ladies, Imma need coordinates.
Heres the real question:
*does it taste like cucumber?*
no its taste like sea cucumber😂
Marcus Baron Paras 😂😂😂
It has little to no taste
Trust me.
Texture is really slippery and hard to grab with chopsticks sometimes.
Its like eating cartilage i think. But it depends on its kind there are liquid type that look like a slime. And if you eat it youre like eating a saliva.
@@TheDevilSpawn JESUS CHRIST IMAGES IN MY HEAD
"You drove our species into endangerment,
*TEST FAILED* "
I've been looking for this comment
Ok, I love this comment XD
Nope not again
Where is that from?
CQ cumber is just trying to do his job
Not even the Ocean floor cleaners are safe from the hungry humans 🤦♀️unbelievable!
prices only rose 17% but supplies dropped 95%.......am I missing something
Edit- I got it, in Mexico only. But that still means farming must be having a huge impact since I would have guessed population drops would have affected all regions.
Steve Smith 95% in Mexico.
the 95 percent drop was only in Mexico
Yes... You are missing something...
@@Forthood1 so no other region suffered a drop?
@@xfireprince2411 I get that now, but I still find that odd. Only Mexico suffered declines that high? The rest of the world hasn't? From the tone of the video everyone was over....fishing?...them. so I would have expected a higher than 14% price increase
To be honest it only worth 200Php in the Philippines or 4.25 dollar only.
Yeah I watched a documentary by kara david it is sad because the kids who caught the sea cumber sell a bucket for only 500 pesos!
$4.25 for one kg, or $4.25 for one animal?
@@mike4ty4 kilogram
RandomVideosPH no filipino can afford that
@@Masterchuh5
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Here in the Philippines you just walk by the beach and find sea cucumbers. They're everywhere. You pick it up and eat them straight or with vinegar. I don't eat them though. But when I decide to, maaan I'd feel a hundred bucks. I'm never gonna look at them the same way again.
J Nigel you're the only one saying that... they are tasteless. It depends on the sauce.
Yea it just only cost 2000 pesos here in the northern part
J Nigel lol what? depends on the type of fish. Fishes have unique tastes even when mixed with sauce.
J Nigel what would you say it tastes like though
JAN KHALABI they do look weird but that's sea life...
You know it's going to be a good video when you start with the comparison of a vegetable with an animal as a bait. Well done, whoever you are.
Whyy would you eat these?? Stop eating everything jeez
(Im sorry im uncultured but Im not going to change my mind)
Your not uncultured, your just right.
But it's really delicious if you try them ps I'm chinese
We eat these creatures raw. Love from Southeast Asia.
@Tong X im not saying its just asians. Im pointing out to everyone. Like just eat highly populated animal or atleast try to produce more sea cucumbers like a farm ._. They're necessary for the ocean
Unfortunatly we humans will eat and hunt about everything that lives walks flys crawl andd swims ...ya know people get bored by same food so they eat new stuff...give me chicken and bacon n beef keep the rest ...
"Thick juicy bodies" What the....
Oooh lala most of these gays in comments section don't mention the reporters sexy voice
I thought that was shit in the thumbnail...
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Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol ot doesn't even look like shit.. If that's what your shit looks like you should probably see a doctor
@@bobthedestroyer6205 why so mean
@@bobthedestroyer6205 hahahahahabahahaha
"Mystical Dragon Slug" is my new favorite phrase
"Those things that look like sea monster turds,, yes let's eat them all".... 🤢
Courtney Lirette same applies to all cultures.
Back in the day we think the same to lobster and crab ...
They ain't Kosher so hard pass from me.
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@@GRIGGINS1 cringe
why don't they just get them on Minecraft? on creative mode they're free
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this is the most autistic comment I've seen this week. bravo
@@simunator it's almost as if it was a joke or something...
@@simunator
Its so autistic that it might even be a joke...
@@simunator is this bait?
0:28 If this was his house, he would have a pretty interesting conversation explaining why he has such strange photos hanging around.
Oh...so unlike ordinary cucumbers, they're actually animals.
I think I'll stick with my cheeseburger 's thanks
The next video will be "What it take to grow a pound of beef". If you think about it, growing a pound of beef consumes substantially more resources than a Pound of Chicken.
@@steak5599 i like chiken burger more anyway
Sean? .... This is really random😂. I think this is a sign that I read too many TH-cam comments lol.
@@locturallylocs9097 haha
*that's nice, but do they glow?*
Or do they vibrate?
If you shove them inside one of your cave they might glow or even wiggle.
jason fort Jesus Christ
No but some have tentacles that can come out of their anus but if it touches you it will hurt
no they dont
Moving creature: *exists*
Asia: *_Its free dinner_*
its free real estate.
Im offended lol.
Im asian
@kai Not really though. Other Asian countries are also like that
Americans: tend to make up prejudice and believe everything they see on internet.
Y’all, I am asian XD This was a joke, I’ve eaten Sea cucumber, octopus, pork brain, chicken feet, pufferfish, and other weird things! I understand not all asian countries do it but mainly South-East/Eastern Asia still do. I’m Viet-Cambodian.
They are an essential part of the ecosystem that prevents algea blooms and filtering the ocean floor.
8in indonesia, its called "teripang" we often make it like a chips. And it's so cheap here. Just around 1$ for each hundred grams. But tbh i don't know if its the same "sea cucumber" as u guys think
Turns out it’s the same. and it’s not cheap tbh. It’s good to treat cancer they said.
@@tenyharyati9355 no, i often bought that for my grandma near the beach area in my city. It's around a dollar for 100gram teripang chip
@@bukanpanda7259 daerah mana. ada perbedaan sih antara timun laut sama teripang
No.if you go to jakarta, you need 1000 usd to buy 1 kilograms dry sea cucumber(teripang)
I remember there's alot of these in beaches during my childhood in the Philippines. I got to be scared by how it looks and so I just watch it move not picking them up. More than its price, it's a treasured memory for me.
Hahahaha, kakatawa ganan din ako, pati hanggang ngayon takot pa din ako sa balatan.. Kadiri lol
*sees sea cucumber*
Chinese: "Tasty"
Dude they nearly eat every animal they see...🤪
EDM forever lolol not true stop stereotyping us
Pajeet
It's a big worm. But considering it's under water, it's edible.
i once found one, never thought it could sell this much
You can easily find a sea cucumber when the tide retreats at one of the islands in Msia, I picked up more than 5 without swimming.
It seems the price is when dried. They seem to lose a lot of weight when dried.
See Victor you should take a selfie with them
not all kind of sea cucumbers are eatable. some are poisonous.
I remember when we used to get one in a sea and just throw them back and forth when they were this expensive
Ikr
Once i went to a beach and saw one
I just tossed it back into the ocean.
Never knew..
That thing was expensive...
NA S i Found one on the beach and popped it
so that’s why Kevin the sea cucumber was one of the only sea cucumbers we saw on the show
If they will pick them like this its gonna be problem. They are not plants. They are life organisms
I edited this comment so the reply's don't make sense.
My guess is It needs to be the one with spikes and large in size.
Not just sit at the beach you have to actually have to dive
@@zykit730 While in Florida' Clear Water beach, my sister found a couple of yellow ones.... we should of sold them .
You would have to find some pretty rare sea cucumbers in Japan and southeast Asia, regular sea cucumbers sell for $100/kilo but the super spiked japanese ones with crazy colors that you find in the shallow water will maybe go for $3000/kilo but those are incredibly rare and not to mention endangered , hence the price
still good money if you find a couple of them and sell them , and easy $200/day
You all need the thanos snap.
me and my friend found one of thesee,and decided to throw it at eachother.......
we didnt know it had guts......
They aren't guts, they're lungs
@can we get 1,000 subs with No vid ? *Wait wot*
Ilija Jonkic me and my cousin did the same thing at an island once... one of the native people came and saw us then sent us off the island.... rip
The weird part is that it was probably ok
Wade Finnie r/thathappened
The days of seas cucumbers are now numbered.
I remember in the 90's I could see thousands of Sea Cucumbers in the beaches where I live, I don't even have to walk far from the shore to see one, Now I am lucky if I could see one.