Bêche-de-mer or "Trepang" is a kind of sea slug, and is found on the reefs in a few feet of water.
Captain King assures us that two hundred vessels annually leave Madagascar to fish for the sea slug, as it is sometimes called.
sea slug Any of various colorful marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia, lacking a shell and gills but having fringelike projections that serve as respiratory organs. Also called nudibranch. |