Purple sea urchins are carpeting the ocean floor off the coast of Oregon — their round, spiky bodies clinging to rocks and reef. For sea urchin divers who harvest them as premium shellfish, most often ...
almost 85 tons of sea urchin shells in the town are discarded locally every year. Recycling the shells has proven difficult. Fishermen are too busy to manage them during the peak harvesting period ...
and commercial sea urchin and lobster fishers had all signed up to increase the project’s chances of success, Assoc Prof Ling said. “The cooperation between scientists, marine harvest ...