Sea cucumbers are slimy, rubbery sacks of ocean water. About a foot-long, sausage-shaped and covered in warts, these echinoderms (think sea urchins and starfish), inhabit ocean floors around the world. Their skin is also able to morph from flexible and blubbery to rigid in a matter of seconds to defend against predators. When startled or threatened, some of the more than 1,000 species will excrete their entrails. Who would have guessed that the blubbery, slug-like creatures are also a big cash crop for commercial dive fishermen in Anacortes and throughout Puget Sound?
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