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.
Underwater kelp forests are being decimated by sea urchins. Here's how two different organizations are working together to restore them.
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.
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.
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.
‘Overfishing and population growth are major threats to the health of the oceans and my personal opinion is that aquaculture is part of the solution’ – Emily Warren, Council of Emerging Leaders in Aquaculture.
IMAS scientists have conducted research on Centrostephanus and associated barrens along the Tasmanian coast for more than seventeen years.
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.
Sea urchins don"t immediately come to mind when thinking of the variety of delectable goods we farm from the seas, but they soon might be.
Pilot project underway in Departure Bay determines if farming commercially viable.
Urchinomics aims to preserve sea plants and boost rural communities while tapping into a lucrative market.
Technology developed in Norway and Japan could help Tasmanians cope with – and profit from – the destructive invasion of long spined sea urchins.
A Memorial researcher is investigating a new opportunity he hopes will help diversify the range of seafood produced in Newfoundland and Labrador for worldwide distribution.
An experiment in Nanaimo’s Departure Bay is testing whether sea urchin farming could be the next big industry on our coast.
What do First Nation villages in Quebec, barren kelp beds in Western Australia, Japanese seafood giant Mitsubishi, and a Norwegian investment firm all have in common?
Across the worlds oceans, sea urchins are on the march and thats not a good thing. Reports on how a new system of population management can stem a damaging swell in numbers while meeting a growing demand for their you-know-whats.
Did you know that we won the prestigious Minister of Fisheries Award in Japan?!
Scientists hope a new pilot project will show that a sustainable, spiny seafood could be British Columbia’s next big export.
Federal scientists and others are exploring the possibility of sea urchin farming in Canada, with at least six pilot studies using Norwegian technology that proponents hope will turn "zombie" urchins which can denude kelp beds into profitable seafood.
Along the coastlines of southeastern Australia, and far beyond, a silent, unstoppable menace is wreaking havoc, turning lifegiving undersea kelp forests into barren wastes.
Infestations of long-spined sea urchins in Australia's east coast are being dealt with by a firm aiming to turn them into a lucrative industry.
Urchinomics, a Norwegian sea urchin farming firm, has signed an agreement with the Ekuanitshit Nation in Quebec for the initiation of a pilot project.
A new sea urchin ranching concept — 'Urchinomics' — could be about to change the way several species' value chains operate, according to the company behind it.
