There is a growing movement among scientists in Oregon and the West Coast to get the Sunflower sea stars listed as an endangered species.
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A pronounced, widespread and persistent regime shift among marine ecosystems is observable on temperate rocky reefs as a result of sea urchin overgrazing.
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Ranching sea urchins, RAS shrimp production and land-based seaweed cultivation were among the ventures pitched to potential investors at Fish 2.0’s meeting in California this week.
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A sea urchin dubbed the “cockroach of the ocean” has almost completely destroyed the kelp forests off the coast of Northern California — endangering the regions biodiversity and local economy. And it's all because of climate change.
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The majestic vistas of the northern Californian coastline conceal an underwater slaughter that is troubling scientists and endangering local fishermen.
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Early on a gray summer Saturday, an unusual assemblage — commercial fishermen, recreational boaters, neoprene-clad divers — gathered for a mission at Albion Cove, a three-hour drive north of San Francisco.
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Fresh, salty and creamily opulent, this rust-coloured paste, known in Japan as uni, is a meal I’ll remember for the rest of my life
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Too many purple sea urchins and not enough bull kelp continues to stymie California’s red urchin dive industry. Since the one-two punch of El Niño and the warm-water blob in 2016, bull kelp beds have declined by 93 percent from previous years, according to a study by the California Fish and Game Commission.
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The spiny California sea urchin has busted out of the sushi bar and is having its moment on just about every menu in Los Angeles right now, in everything from uni jam to uni ice cream.
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A webinar series focussed on marine ecosystem restoration provides fresh perspectives on how we can benefit from better planning for a healthy marine environment.
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You might know them as ozzy eggs, but maybe they'd be better referred to as a cash cow.
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Sea urchins hit all the taste pleasure points – salt, sweet and umami. In a lot of places, sea urchins are overfished, but that certainly isn't the case off the coast of California, where there's such an overabundance of purple sea urchins that it has become an aquacultural concern.
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Here are five of the biggest challenges our oceans face, and what we can do to solve them.
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We launch our kayaks at dawn from a pristine, sheltered cove and paddle about a quarter-mile up the pinnacle-studded Mendocino coastline to a craggy reef just offshore.
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Researchers assess how the quality of red sea urchin roe—uni—influences fishermen's behavior
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The price you pay for apples in the store doesn’t cover the hidden costs of producing them.
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Usually, the first weekend of April is when abalone divers pack up their wetsuits and fins and head off to campsites along the Sonoma and Mendocino coast.
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Sea urchin, a type of marine animal related to sea stars and sand dollars, have been around for some 540 million years. Harvested from Vancouver Island to Baja California on the west coast and along New England’s shoreline from Marine to Massachusetts, sea urchin is prolific, sustainable, and usually available year-round.
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Urchins live off kelp, and in the last three years the kelp forests on the Northern California coast have collapsed. Income for local red urchin divers has plummeted by 90 percent in three years.
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California's coastal ecosystem — and the fisheries that depend on it — are in the grip of a huge disruption
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