Fish maw and sea cucumber for sale in a market in Sabah, Malaysia. - TRAFFIC
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The thriving online trade and growing appetite for two seafood items - fish maw and sea cucumber - in Singapore and Malaysia are threatening their population in the wild, warned a wildlife trade monitoring organisation.
Notably, several threatened and internationally regulated species, including those protected under Singapore and Malaysia laws, are being sold online, said non-governmental organisation Traffic in a new report released on Friday (Jan 28).
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