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The dugong is a marine herbivore that inhabits many coasts in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It is of vital economic and cultural importance in many places, including coastal Australia. Its meat and oil are highly prized, and it is continuously hunted. However, the natural resources in coastal Oceanyka give this region of the world the single largest concentration of dugong populations in Earth. They are like smaller, friendlier, less aggressive whales economically speaking. Additionally, over thousands of years, northern Oceanykans have managed to domesticate the dugong, setting up enormous nets around their native seagrass pastures in the region's vast and semi-enclosed shallows. This practice is known today as dugong ranching.
The dugong isn't a native species, and is far more globalised than other endemic examples, but is still worthy of mention for its value in Oceanykan ecology and economy.