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Aquafarmers serve up invasive species to help restore balance in hard-hit region: 'The demand ... is enormous'
However, urchin divers and abalone farmers in Santa Barbara have realized that cultivating purple sea urchins on aquaculture ...
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What’s a Sea Urchin Party — and How Do I Throw One?
Warming waters and over-hunting the marine mammals that once brought balance to the ecosystem have led to an overpopulation of Pacific purple sea urchins. And while sprawling urchin barrens sound like ...
Braving sharks and hordes of urchins, scientists are growing kelp one forest at a time
The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment ...
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Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies Is No Cinch
Sometimes new parents get lucky. They get “easy” babies. Young sunflower sea stars are the fussy kind—but their adoptive ...
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Japan's sea urchins dine out on new menu
Sea urchin is a delicacy in many parts of the world ... Prefecture's fisheries technology center began studying Japanese purple sea urchins when the local wild population spiked about five ...
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Sea urchins fed waste cabbage to spare Japan’s seaweed forests
“The urchins we’re raising here at the research center, which are Pacific purple sea urchins, really love vegetables,” like surplus cabbages that are given to us and Japanese mustard ...
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Braving sharks and hordes of urchins, scientists are growing kelp one forest at a time
but not purple urchin. After hungry purple urchins mow down kelp forest, they lay dormant on the sea bed in a starved condition, with little uni of value for divers. In the last year, Owen and ...