An insight on this year's Palolo Harvest.
A manifold of villagers riding on a boat when heading out to collect palolo.
Photo: Savaii Tourism Association
It's that time of the year again where villagers head out in the ocean, early hours of the morning with nets and flashlights to catch palolo.
A seafood delicacy that makes the nation go bonkers when it is harvested. It happens seven days after every full moon in the month of October.
Several people have posted on social media about their harvest and selling their palolo's for cash with prices ranging high as $2000 for a biscuit bucket and $200 for a 1litre Best Food mayonnaise container.
In an email interview with residents in Savaii Ueni Peaauala said how this years harvest was quite different from every year.
"This years harvest is quite different from the past two years. Not because we have less palolo but because boarders have open and we now have more people from abroad harvesting".
Photo: Savaii Tourism Association
"Some people had a great run during the morning harvest here in the big island. While some were unlucky and went home with just their nets filled" he said.
Ruth Oloapu from the village of Vaisala Savaii were fortunate to have more than one bucket filled. "I thank God for blessing me and my family with this years harvest , we've managed to collect more than ten full buckets and some containers as well" she said on phone call interview.
If you ever get the chance to harvest Palolo in Upolu or in Savaii you'll notice how only rural villages and areas are the hotspots for collecting huge amounts of the delicacy.
This is due to huge amounts of corals that are rarely visited and fished by communities there.Other names for Palolo are Eunice Viridis and Palolo Viridis.