Sea cucumbers or trepang is the name given to animal invertebrate sea cucumber (Holothuroidea) that can be eaten. Sea cucumbers are widely distributed in marine environments around the world, ranging from tidal zones to deep ocean, especially in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean. For parts of Indonesia, sea cucumbers are found in the waters of eastern Indonesia, such as in the waters of Borneo. Items are generally derived from sea cucumber species of sea cucumbers that live in shallow waters, to depths of 50 meters.
Sea cucumbers are slow-moving animals, living on the base substrate of sand, sandy mud and in the reef environment. Sea cucumbers are an important component in the food chain in coral reefs and associated ecosystems at various levels of feed structure (trophic levels). Sea cucumber-eating plays an important role as a deposit (deposit feeder) and eating suspension (suspension feeder). In Indo-Pacific region, on the coral that is not under pressure of exploitation, the density of sea cucumbers can be more than 35 individuals per m2, in which each individual can process 80 grams of dry weight of sediment each day.
