Desc: Sea for Sale: The Million-Dollar Business with Sea Shells: Directed by Birgit Klumpp, Heike Keuthen. Everyday thousands of sea shell, snails and sea stars still alive are being taken out of the Philippine seas ending as decoration in our homes. It's a whole industry worth 30 Million US-Dollars in 2014 alone. The pressure on the marine environment is extreme - some species have been already gone locally extinct.