COMMUNITIES

Indian Ocean Trepang partners with coastal communities to develop their capability and capacity to farm sea cucumbers. Together with our local partners, we provide communities with the equipment to set-up their first sea pens, technical training, sea cucumbers juveniles supply and a guaranteed and secured selling channel.

IOT currently works along 150 km of coastal shoreline with 5 villages and 180 fishermen families impacting the lives of around 600 people.

 
 
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Tulear, Madagascar

Since inception in 2011, Indian Ocean Trepang has been working with communities in Tulear vicinity, a small city on the South-West coast of Madagascar. Madagascar is the 4th largest island in the world with 22 Million inhabitants (as at FY2016); its population doubles every 15 year.

 
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iMPACT within communities

We entrust fishermen coastal village communities to grow - in their own sea pens - sea cucumber juveniles to adult size, which:

  • Provides them an additional income on top of their traditional fishing activity, which is decreasing due to the depletion of the wild stock;
  • Enhances the status of the women, since they very often are the ones carrying this activity;
  • Enabling better access to education since this income would first be dedicated to children’s education;
  • Leads to the local economy growth.