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It's Australia's oldest food export, yet most Australians have never eaten it and wouldn't even recognise it. The sea cucumber is a traditional Chinese delicacy that was harvested by Macassan fisherman off Arnhem Land for hundreds of years. Australian researchers now believe this bizarre sea creature could help struggling shrimp farmers in Central Vietnam. Kerry Staight reports on an unlikely saviour for Vietnamese aquaculture.