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Yellow seahorses are valuable in traditional Chinese medicine. Although their benefits on health have not been tested, they are still captured and traded. In 2001, around 25 million seahorses were consumed as medicine around the world. They are also caught as bycatch. Habitat destruction and pollution has caused a decline in the population of yellow seahorses. They were common a few decades ago in Hong Kong, but have now become rare.