A climate-related catastrophe off the California coast has resulted in the death of 90% of the kelp from San Francisco to Oregon as an explosion of ravenous urchins devours everything in sight.
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Sea urchins love to eat kelp. Kelp loves to sequester carbon. Now sea urchin farmers are removing hungry urchins from kelp fields in California, raising them in captivity to fulfill the world’s hunger for sushi, and saving the kelp to do its important work to help the climate.
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Una empresa noruega de "cría en granjas de erizos" quiere recoger los equinodermos de la naturaleza, engordarlos y venderlos en restaurantes.
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A company wants to take urchins from the wild, then fatten them up for sale.
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A Norwegian ‘urchin ranching’ company wants to take the echinoderms from the wild, fatten them up and sell them to restaurants.
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California’s kelp forests are currently facing a major threat: deforestation.
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This video clip is a short summary of the TV Tokyo program “未来世紀ジパング/Miraiseiki Zipangu” aired in March.
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Kråkeboller beiter hardt på tareskogen, og mange steder er det oppstått rene «ørkener» på grunn av den hardføre pigghudarten.
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The underwater battle being waged along our coast.
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Purple urchins were not getting a lot of love at the cove across Highway 1 from Van Damme State Park on Saturday morning. Urchins have an insatiable appetite for kelp and very few predators, which leads to a near-barren underwater landscape.
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Underwater kelp forests are being decimated by sea urchins. Here's how two different organizations are working together to restore them.
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Sea urchin ranching concept Urchinomics has seen success at its semi-commercial trial in Japan, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda -- founder and CEO of the initiative -- told Undercurrent News.
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Sea urchin ranching concept Urchinomics has seen success at its semi-commercial trial in Japan, Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda -- founder and CEO of the initiative -- told Undercurrent News.
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A colorful sea star has vanished from the Pacific Ocean off California and Oregon, and its nemesis, a voracious kelp-eating urchin, has run amok. And the consequences for the area’s marine ecology and California’s fishery has been catastrophic.
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IMAS scientists have conducted research on Centrostephanus and associated barrens along the Tasmanian coast for more than seventeen years.
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