Local palolo lovers will be delighted to hear the delicacy will be back in the coming week, according to weather officials who also forecast the expected dates of the sea worm rising.

Officials within the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environments Meteorological Division are forecasting that palolo can be expected in the coastal waters of Samoa between 15–16 November.

Many of palolo fishermen travel all the way from Savai'i to Apia to sell buckets and container loads of Palolo with the festive season around the corner, the return of the marine delicacy will enable families to earn extra revenue for the Christmas and New Year holidays.

According to the officials at the Ministry, the palolo will only surface in waters around Savai'i due to the healthy condition of the coral in waters around the big island unlike in Upolu. 

The fish market in Apia is the usual venue for people to buy and sell palolo with many willing to pay huge sums of money  to get their hands on the sea worms.

The last palolo harvest was also done in Savai'i with this newspaper witnessing some of the transactions that took place at the Apia fish market.

The buyers would tend to resell their palolo for prices that could go up as high as twice the amount that they spent when buying the delicacy.

After the sea worms surface next week, the season will not come around again until the same time next week.

According to the U.S. government's National Park Service (N.P.S.), palolo is the edible portion of a polychaete worm (Eunice viridis) that lives in shallow coral reefs throughout the south central Pacific, although they do not swarm at all of these locations. This phenomenon is well known in Samoa, Rarotonga, Tonga, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. 

The N.P.S. says palolo usually appear here in October, but sometimes in November or sometimes during both months. This difference is due to the fact that there are approximately 13 lunar months in one calendar year and the palolo use primarily the moon to time their spawning activity.