Red urchins, larger than purple urchins, are commercially viable because people eat them — or more specifically, their gonads.
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But when climate change helped trigger a 60-fold explosion of purple urchins off Northern California's coast, the urchins went on a feeding frenzy and the kelp was devoured.
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"Otters prey on a wide variety of food, and one of their main courses is sea urchins, which contribute to the degradation of the kelp forest because urchins eat kelp," says Hoffman.
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More otters -> fewer sea urchins -> more kelp -> less global warming.
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What about the underwater shots of the islander fishing sea urchins?
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Purple sea urchins wreaking havoc on the West Coast, we report.
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Mr. Johnson pointed out crabs and urchins in the clear seawater.
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A touch tank will hold sea stars, sea urchins and anemones.
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That was before the urchins mowed down Northern California's kelp forests.
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Persuading local fishermen to harvest the abundant sea urchins for him.
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There isn't much food in the purple urchins, because they're starving, too.
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The plot here is annotated by a Greek chorus of street Urchins.
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The appetizer consisted of a help-yourself bowl of fresh sea urchins.
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At first they examined sea urchins, sponges and black coral from their submarine.
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Frederick persisted, trading bits of bread with street urchins for secret reading lessons.
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Remarkably the delicate urchins retained their flavor, delivering little hits of briny freshness.
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To say that these urchins taste of the sea is selling them short.
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Near the waterline, there was a gang of little urchins with greasy hair.
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They will also be able to touch live urchins, sea stars and mollusks.
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It was slow work; after 30 minutes he had collected fewer than 25 urchins.
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With sea urchins, it's the gonads of both males and females that we're after.
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But the growing purple urchin population outcompeted the red urchins for the available kelp.
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Mussels, starfish, clams, sea urchins—many of these creatures have a life stage that's planktonic.
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SEA CUCUMBERS, soft-bodied relatives of sea urchins and starfish, are a sought-after foodstuff.
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Six weeks later, the fisherman gave his blessing for the chef to import the urchins.
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Wilcox: Vinegar is shockingly good for stings by marine animals like sea urchins or jellyfish.
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These satellite earrings, made out of crystals and pearls, covered the ears like sea urchins.
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In 2016, all four of the orange-bandana-clad former street urchins found a home.
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Tempted by some Maine sea urchins, slender Massachusetts razor clams or a rare blue lobster?
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Urchins help keep reefs healthy by munching away at algae that can smother coral polyps.
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These echinoderms, close relatives of sea urchins and starfish, may not appeal to every palate.
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We had come to see the former home of Salvador Dalí, who was obsessed with sea urchins, both as food and inspiration; a famous photograph shows the artist eating urchins on a boat, and sea urchin forms are seen in many of his works.
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Sea cucumbers—there are some 1,700 species globally—are echinoderms, along with urchins and sea stars.
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I said that honestly, with these sea urchins, I would just serve it with good bread.
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A two-hour trip from Llafranc that includes sea urchins and wine costs €30 per person.
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I thought I knew the flavour of urchins until I tried the ones Roderick supplies me.
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One of them is Gary Trumper, who has harvested red urchins for more than 30 years.
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The common sea star (Asterias forbesi) is an echinoderm related to sea urchins and sea cucumbers.
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"They were street urchins with bad intent," said Jim Shedd, a former D.E.A. agent in Miami.
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Her work was full of cunning and wonder, sex and sea urchins, mathematics and logical puzzles.
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He can't fish the sea urchins, because it's forbidden, so he has all this method of hiding.
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The commercial harvest of red sea urchins in California and Oregon also has taken a massive hit.
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That means the only way to restore the kelp is to remove or destroy the purple urchins.
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While urchins are in starvation mode, the edible part — known as roe — shrivels, making them commercially worthless.
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Here's hoping the lucky winners get their money's worth of sea urchins, emu fruit and Buddha's hand.
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Street urchins and tango buskers pass through during the course of the day, all after spare change.
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And I insert size comparisons that make intuitive sense (purple urchins are the size of a plum).
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The plan also includes bringing back sea urchins, which suffered a mass die-off in the 1980s.
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Large numbers of starfish, which prey on purple urchins, were also killed by a disease starting in 2013.
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Adult sea cucumbers can, as do starfish and sea urchins, move around using suckerlike structures called tube feet.
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When the urchins are dead, then they get this iodine flavor, but the live ones don't have that.
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Tova asked me to come and sit down beside her again, now that the urchins had buggered off.
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The underwater annihilation is killing off important fisheries for red abalone and red sea urchins and creating such havoc that scientists in California are partnering with a private business to collect the over-abundant purple urchins and "ranch" them in a controlled environment for ultimate sale to a global seafood market.
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His father, a tailor, literally died of shame because Aladdin wouldn't learn a trade and played with street urchins.
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Many stay in local hotels, eat in local restaurants, and buy local products such as sea urchins and seaweed.
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It's nothing fancy but is a good 30 minutes of entertainment—kids can touch the starfish and sea urchins.
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Over the past four decades he has traveled widely, photographing street urchins in Colombia, Occupy protesters in Oakland, Calif.
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They ignore the abundant mussels that cling to coastal rocks, and consider langoustines and sea urchins to be revolting.
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That's where we found Mr. Blanch, alternately taking orders and slicing open urchins with a custom-made mini guillotine.
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Sea urchins, a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine and a large curved knife sat on a table.
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Classified as Echinoderms, sea urchins are part of over 700 species that range in different colours, sizes, and shapes.
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Having a fondness for algae, urchins feast on both plant and animal life and can be male or female.
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Sunflower starfish, whose appendages can span more than three feet, normally eat purple urchins, helping to limit their numbers.
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Pull the starfish out of the ecosystem and the urchins reign supreme, eating every last inch of kelp forest.
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Oftentimes, I think these images become poverty porn, transforming the toil of industrial laborers, miners, and street urchins into beauty.
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Rachel Goodyear, Urchins 2, 2016, pencil, charcoal, watercolour and ink on paper, 72 x 53 cm, 28.3 x 20.9 in.
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The news outlet also reported that the urchins have eaten 90 percent of giant bull kelp forests in Northern California.
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A pretty young girl attempting to ninja-murder a businessman ends up with poisonous sea urchins stuck to her face.
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Sea otters crush tough prey with rocks on their own bellies and laugh at the spiky defenses of sea urchins.
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There are some natural obstacles to negotiate, namely kelp and painful urchins near the shore and at the finish line.
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Sea otters, another predator of purple urchins, were hunted to near extinction in Northern California by 2000th-century fur traders.
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The goal, said Dr. Catton, is to create kelp oases: places where kelp can safely rebound, free from purple urchins.
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And when, surrounded by frisky Urchins, he does an involuntary hip bump, his face glows with a subtle, gratified surprise.
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They found that the sharks hunted more for sea urchins, one of the species they eat because of higher temperatures.
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A recent count found 350 million purple sea urchins on one Oregon reef alone — more than a 10,000% increase since 1003.
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And in Northern California, 90% of the giant bull kelp forests have been devoured by the urchins, perhaps never to return.
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The discovery adds to our understanding of urchins and how they're able to achieve high population densities in many reef habitats.
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The famous Faroese sea urchins are now on the menu at Clugston's recently opened restaurant Iluka in the heart of Copenhagen.
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"Gunnar's urchins have this incredible sweetness, almost like carrots, and they are alive, flown in fresh in the morning" explains Clugston.
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The chef had called Gunnar a few days before and asked if they could talk about his fabled Faroese sea urchins.
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Mr. Pérez offered to show us how to collect sea urchins the traditional way and prepare them in a few dishes.
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He cantilevered out over the water, using the basket end of the tool, called a garroter, to pull out sea urchins.
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Sunflower sea stars eat abalone and urchins, and those populations have exploded in some areas in the absence of the stars.
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Without otters, who acted as their main predator, the urchins ate all the kelp that once provided a home for fish.
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Some of the first people to sound the alarm about the purple urchins, Dr. Catton said, were commercial red urchin harvesters.
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Dalí supposedly loved sea urchins, and would sit down and eat 30 at a time, plucking the meat from the shells.
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Due to Sloan's sustainable, non-invasive fishing practices, the great and the good of the food world champion his urchins and clams.
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Purple sea urchins are disrupting marine life on the west coast by devouring kelp forests that are important to Pacific Ocean ecosystems.
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There are galloping sea urchins that can scurry across the sea floor on long spines, at speeds of several centimetres a second.
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Anandamide, the chemical found in the roe of sea urchins, is very similar to THC, the primary psychoactive chemical found in cannabis.
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But climate change helped trigger a population explosion of purple urchins, and they have gone on a feeding frenzy devouring the kelp.
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The one thing I hadn't anticipated was the number of people who wanted to solve the problem by eating the purple urchins.
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From dire climate reports to ravenous urchins and vanishing heritage sites, here are the climate stories you shouldn't miss from this year.
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Such reproductive strategies are still practiced today by hermaphroditic species, like snails, and species that don't appear to differentiate, like sea urchins.
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Without sea stars, in particular the sunflower star, the urchins ran amok, laying waste to kelp forests up and down the coast.
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But they'll have to overcome the fact that chefs and seafood buyers are more accustomed to red urchins, which are also larger.
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For diners choosing to go down the more adventurous rabbit hole, precious ingredients such as sea urchins or mahogany clams could be introduced.
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One evening he held out a tray of sea urchins, their spikes groping the air, and asked each of us to choose one.
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He was scooping up sea urchins and placing them in a yellow string bag he had tied to the waistband of his shorts.
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He had a cut on his knee, but he was happy in the sunshine, jumping between rocks to scoop up the spiky urchins.
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From the time they left the Hôtel Murat until they returned they were recognized by no one but the two young Paris urchins.
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He was describing how sea cucumbers, the unlovely cousins of starfish and sea urchins, end up on the tables of the Chinese today.
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He earns his living over a small period of the year diving in cold waters to harvest sea urchins and mahogany clams by hand.
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Oregon's urchin fishery had a boom year last year, when red urchins were scarce in California but before their purple cousins had spread north.
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Though Patrick fails in his mission, Spongebob is forced to return home anyway after being stung by jellyfish and attacked by poisonous sea urchins.
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I can ring up a fishmonger and get sea urchins, and people will like them, but they are not going to change your life.
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Research in this vein tends to focus on the similar threats faced by calcifying marine life such as corals, clams, oysters, and sea urchins.
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Some 60,000 people work under its leaky roof, and hundreds of forklifts, carrying everything from sea urchins to whale meat, careen across bumpy floors.
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This time, Sparrow's work took shape in the form of a delicatessen with 30,000 items made entirely of felt, from sea urchins to bagels.
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When I surfaced, the man collecting sea urchins beckoned me over to take a look at the ball of black needles in his hand.
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"This is either a flower or an echinoderm," he said, referring to a group of marine life-forms that includes sea urchins and starfish.
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Wielding a shuttlecock-shaped basket attached to a long rattan pole, Mr. Pérez pointed to the sea urchins nestled in clumps near the rocks.
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The sex trade involves the interests of powerful men, and the rank-and-file police can hardly be troubled to care about dead urchins.
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A recent count found 350 million purple sea urchins on one Oregon reef alone — more than a 10,000 percent increase since 85033 (The Associated Press).
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Over at the Pera Museum, Charles Avery's fish market installation, part of his ongoing project "The Island," mesmerizes with glass blown eels and sea urchins.
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Rumrill, the shellfish expert from Oregon, supports efforts to harvest excess urchins but strikes a less optimistic note when it comes to saving the kelp.
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Scotsman Roddie Sloan supplies sea urchins and mahogany clams to some of the world's best restaurants, from Noma in Copenhagen to St. John in London.
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We gathered with our fellow passengers around the roof of the cabin, which held a 22-pound bag of sea urchins and a mini guillotine.
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Strat is the leader of a gang of resourceful street urchins known as the Lost, a tribe frozen for eternity at the age of 17.
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Without the pampering they get at the farm, the urchins would contain hardly any "uni," as their yolk-colored gonads are called at sushi restaurants.
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Yet designers and engineers at the University of Stuttgart did exactly that, and insist the burrowing sea urchins offer a compelling model for fabrication and construction.
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He says the Faroese urchins are superior to anything else he has tried, but part of the problem is also the way people handle this delicacy.
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It's a favorite game among Faroese children to pick up sea urchins and hurl them at one another, because they make a satisfying splat on impact.
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He bought a pony on which to pose street urchins whose parents were willing to pay for images that made their offspring look like little grandees.
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We didn't dare touch the sea urchins poking their spines out of coral nooks and giant clams that I'd heard could cut a person's limbs off.
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At 17, she landed a summer job washing glassware and observing the sex habits of sea urchins at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
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Around the same time, the purple urchins had two excellent breeding years — and with no predators, those gametes grew up and are now eating everything in sight.
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A lot of people scoop out the roe and wash it in a salt brine, but I think you should keep the urchins in their natural juices.
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Otters—once hunted nearly to extinction—float among towering kelp forests, which themselves have rebounded thanks to the booming otter population's appetite for kelp-loving sea urchins.
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Not all of these species interact directly — yet when Brown incorporates footage of the region after the otters have disappeared, he finds the sea overflowing with urchins.
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In its absence, scientists documented a large increase in many types of urchins and a subsequent decline in kelp populations, to the potential detriment of many other species.
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"The Mermaid" is no ordinary fantastical rom-com though, encompassing as it does weaponized sea urchins, incredibly delicious roasted chickens, man-octopus self-mutilation and other comic oddities.
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Specifically, the they'll be looking for things like sea sponges, brittle stars, urchins, sea cucumbers, sea stars, and anything else that may have taken root under the ice.
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After local fishermen complained they were catching fewer natural sea urchins, its bankers created a network of local academics and researchers to experiment ways to farm the creatures.
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The AP reported that "urchin barrens," or areas with nothing but the creatures, have spread to Oregon and are damaging fisheries for red abalone and red sea urchins.
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The devastation is also economic: Until now, red abalone and red sea urchins, a larger and meatier species of urchin, supported a thriving commercial fishery in both states.
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A recent art installation in New York City took shape in the form of a delicatessen with 30,000 items made entirely of felt, from sea urchins to bagels.
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That was not a good sign, but I wanted to ignore all the signs, so I shifted my attention back to the man who was collecting sea urchins.
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Founded in 1934, the Irregulars are named for a group of street urchins who assisted Holmes in some of Arthur Conan Doyle's 60 stories about the fictional detective.
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The overpopulated, spiny invertebrates mow down kelp, but now a company looking to collect and sell urchins to gourmands could offer the ailing ecosystem a chance to rebound.
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Founded in 1934, the Irregulars are named for a group of street urchins who assist Holmes in some of Arthur Conan Doyle's 60 stories about the fictional detective.
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It was kind of stunning to think that this very normal-looking human inhabited multitudes of women and men, street urchins and socialites, pin-ups and birthday clowns.
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Half a billion years ago, they began to rapidly evolve into diverse branches, including vertebrates such as humans as well as sea squirts, starfish, sea urchins and acorn worms.
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It may be stark and barren on the surface, but the seafloor below Antarctica is bursting with life, filled with sponges, sea spiders, urchins, sea cucumbers, and sea stars.
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Nestled around the sea urchins' thorns are hundreds of tiny jaws—called pedicellaria heads—that, when launched from the animal's body, are still capable of biting and releasing toxins.
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He always got pissed off with this idea that my father used to push out that he had somehow created this group of urchins to be the Sex Pistols.
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Children can handle these reptiles, as well as the sea stars, urchins and crabs in "Aquaman's Touch Tank," marine species that all have the ability to regenerate body parts.
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Sea urchins on the East Coast are pretty much all overfished and are red-listed, but you can have fishermen/divers go out and then sell them to restaurants.
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Under normal conditions, purple urchins reach food stage in the fall and winter, when ocean currents would make it especially dangerous for harvesters to go out and get them.
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My own neurosis has prepared me for: a London pensioner falling aboard the Northern line and cutting his knee; a roving gang of street urchins making noise in the middle of the night and needing to be blinded by flashlight; a sedentary gang of sea urchins requiring removal from my foot; a mother of my girlfriend needing an oversize Band-Aid on holiday; a French girl asking for a fork in the library.
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Together they go hunting for seaweed, urchins and scallops and cook everything over open fire back at Roddie's Arctic farm - where Halaigh gets to spend the night in a hammock.
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Stepping inside the place is like a chaotic ballet where the vendors are like dancers in rubber boots who unload countless pounds of bluefin tuna, shark fin, and sea urchins.
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" The story is so exuberant and so in love with the details of life — even the food is interesting: veal brains, sea urchins, whale that tastes of "seawater and butter.
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Similar transitions have been observed in sea urchins and shellfish, and some scientists even suspect amorphous calcium carbonate may be a common precursor for calcification across the tree of life.
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The urchins reportedly have also had good breeding years and are not as susceptible to starvation from the kelp shortage because they can become dormant and live for years without food.
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The divers went to work, scraping purple urchins off the bottom of the cove, hoping it would allow the kelp, which has declined 93 percent in Northern California, to grow back.
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In the absence of predators and with dwindling food supplies, the purple urchins have gone on a rampage, said Mark Carr, a population ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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They hung cages containing these larvae, newly hatched from freshly collected adult urchins, in the water above the vents, and also in nearby water of normal pH, to act as a control.
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Scientists estimate that in Oregon alone, it would take 15 to 20 years to remove all 100 million pounds (45 million kilograms) of purple urchins recently surveyed on just one large reef.
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Image: WikimediaPrey animals are capable of defending themselves in an amazing of ways, but when it comes to mounting a sophisticated biological counter-attack, sea urchins have taken it to another level.
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With the otters gone, sea urchins, which the otters had preyed upon, were now free to gobble up a larger share of kelp — food that would otherwise have sustained fish and crabs.
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A plate of the toast will also appear if you order the platter of acorn-fed, hand-sliced Ibérico ham or the chilled Maine sea urchins served on the spiky half-shell.
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"This footage reveals a habitat that is productive, colourful, dynamic and full of a wide variety of biodiversity, including sponges, sea spiders, urchins, sea cucumbers and sea stars," he said in a statement.
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They laid low for several decades, then had their coming-out party in the 1980s, when a diver harvesting sea urchins near Harpswell blundered into a motherlode of Belons in rocky, subtidal habitat.
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MEDARDO ROSSO: EXPERIMENTS IN LIGHT AND FORM Medardo Rosso (1858-3) is known for his unorthodox subjects (street urchins, nursing children) and working methods in which the casting process is frequently left visible.
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A dozen urchins were arranged on a plate, the upper quarter of each spiky exoskeleton sheared off to reveal five symmetrical stripes of roe ranging in color from yellow-gold to brick red.
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And Mr. Haatuft works only with fishermen who pull in wild creatures like cusk, sea urchins, langoustines and mahogany clams — big specimens with thick brown shells that live for up to 400 years.
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The distinctively transparent nature of the egg lent itself to this kind of voyeurism, as did the fact that fertilization in sea urchins takes place outside the body, as it does in frogs.
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Brittle stars, with five radiating arms extending from a central disk, are related to starfish (also called sea stars), sea cucumbers, sea urchins and others in a group of marine invertebrates called echinoderms.
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But 96% of red abalone have disappeared from California's northern coast as the number of purple sea urchins increased six fold, according to a study released this week by the University of California, Davis.
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That's part of why the article began with Josh Russo, a recreational fisheries advocate, talking about "evil" purple urchins that because of climate change are destroying the kelp forest — it's a classic storytelling device.
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The sea was a realm of magic, an otherworldly kingdom where the octopuses danced in slow motion and pink coral and sea urchins lined the rocks like strange little houses in an underwater village.
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For freedivers willing to brave colder waters, Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort in Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada, takes guests on guided ocean freedives to see box crabs, starfish and edible sea urchins.
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Since all other fish of this group ate hard-shelled organisms such as shells or sea urchins, it would have been able to lurk among this crowd and thus attack its unwary prey quite effectively.
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In 2015 an exploratory expedition by IFREMER, a French government agency responsible for oceanography, noted that even mobile animals like sea urchins were 70% less abundant within 37-year-old experimental tracks than outside them.
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Collector sea urchins, Tripneustes gratilla for the nerds, are found in the waters of the Indo-Pacific, Hawaii, and the Red Sea, and they spend their days scouring the ocean floor for algae and seaweed.
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According to Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do, by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, the blobfish's diet mainly consists of mollusks, crabs, and sea urchins—probably sadness, too.
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Less fatty than the urchins I'd enjoyed as sushi, these carried an initial smack of brine followed by a lingering finish at the back of the tongue that varied from mildly sweet to downright honeyed.
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A self-described tomboy, Toorpakai roamed the streets and hung out with a rough crowd, "boys people referred to as street urchins and rats," she recalls in her memoir, which will be released in May.
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The Irregulars were founded by Christopher Morley and other literary figures, who began a modest annual dinner and named themselves after the group of street urchins Holmes relied upon for information on the London underworld.
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My mother would collect shells for her expanding pile in the hallway bathroom back in North Carolina — spiny urchins, weathered sea glass, fishing nets with skate eggs and sand dollars, displayed like shiny brass trophies.
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Climate change has contributed to an explosion in the number of purple urchins that have devoured underwater forests of kelp, which absorb carbon emissions and provide a habitat and food for a wide range of species.
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As Estes recounts his observations of sea otters in their uninterrupted habitat, the camera dives beneath choppy waves to discover sea urchins purpling the rocks and iridescent fish flitting in schools around the up-climbing kelp.
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" Stirred out of his stupor, Fields signaled those assembled to his bedside and whispered, "Poor little urchins out there — undernourished, no doubt improperly clad — something's got to be done about them, something's got to be done.
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After coming here to Norway I've built a career as a fisherman, supplying top of the line restaurants with sea urchins and mahogany clams, but before that I was a farmer, a chef and even a baker.
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Costa Bravans swear that sea urchins are best eaten raw, but they shone in a humble dish of favetes (tiny young fava beans) with quartered slices of blood sausage, olive oil and finely snipped chives and parsley.
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As explained by the National Wildlife Foundation's Robyn Carmichael, sea otters frequently eat sea urchins, which in turn are known for eating massive amounts of kelp, which is very good at taking in carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.
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As Rutherford says, tool use has been documented in nine classes of animals, from sea urchins and snails to octopuses and mammals; there is no simple answer to the question of how brains, tools and intelligence are related.
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Stearns Wharf, a 1,940-foot wooden pier that divides Santa Barbara's east and west beaches, has a handful of seafood joints as well as a natural-history museum with an aquarium stocked with sharks, rays and sea urchins.
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Plus, it needs to be said: She was one of the only people of color in this whole story, and if you think that doesn't matter in Westeros, just remember the way those rude little Winterfell urchins treated her.
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It was the fourth straight victory for the Mets and the sixth straight defeat for the Cubs, and the urchins moved to within a half game of first place in the National League East with three weeks to go.
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When you order a croissant and you get sea urchins wrapped in cabbage and pine salt: like swiping right on a female Michael Bolton lookalike only to be met in the foyer of the British Museum by Isabella Rossellini.
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SHIMONOSEKI, Japan (Reuters) - As years of near-zero interest rates in Japan make traditional lending barely profitable, one regional bank is seeking to drum up business through less conventional enterprises, from opening wine bars to helping local fishermen farm sea urchins.
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Conspiracy number one: Larry was a PR stunt and was adopted to fix Cameron's image problem, specifically the perception that he was a stuffy upper-class nit who probably had a penchant for hitting animals and street urchins with a stick.
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Not for Corvo and Emily in their royal tower—ruling the kingdom as detached and self-content as Delilah, entombed in her painted world—but for Billie, and those like her; the outcasts, the urchins, the thieves, and sex workers.
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From her fun Jelly Beans series, in which a darker transparent exterior is paired with an opaque inside, to the globelike Urchins, which are made using Venetian cane techniques, her work is identified by its bright, kaleidoscopic colors and experimental patterns.
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Or, instead, will the bleeding-edge EDM anthems of today metastasize into the rustic hymns of a post-apocalyptic future, where urchins burning Yeezys for warmth in oil drums hum half-forgotten snippets of Imagine Dragons, the Chainsmokers, and Major Lazer?
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Some of my favorite stories centered on what people are doing in the face of climate change: investigating why puffins are dwindling, plucking "evil purple urchins" from the sea, searching for solutions hidden in the seemingly barren landscape of Oman.
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Cynthia Catton, an environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and a small team of interns sat on a boat counting the urchins that divers hauled to the surface, to get a sense of how they were faring.
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The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has a 100,000-gallon saltwater tank, designed to mirror the Northern California coast, where you can see abalone, urchins both purple and red, sunflower starfish and bull kelp bobbing near the surface.
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Deuterostomes, which lie pretty close to the base of the family tree of all animals, are ancestral not just to humans but to a wide array of animals ranging from sea urchins and starfish to the vast family of vertebrates.
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If the farming is successful, the bank would provide loans to build plants, market the urchins across Japan and possibly open a restaurant with a view of the sea where visitors can try the delicacy over a glass of wine, Yoshimura said.
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Meanwhile, the islanders' world moves on: an old woman meticulously makes her bed and kisses a statue of Saint Mary, a silent man hunts for sea urchins at night, a grandmother dispassionately recalls the bombs of World War II as she sews.
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SHIMONOSEKI, Japan, May 15 (Reuters) - As years of near-zero interest rates in Japan make traditional lending barely profitable, one regional bank is seeking to drum up business through less conventional enterprises, from opening wine bars to helping local fishermen farm sea urchins.
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"Freddi always had some sort of science in it, like using a lever to help you open something that is heavy or a balance where you need to put a certain number of purple sea urchins on a scale," Borowick told me.
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Oxybenzone and octinoxate are destroying the oceans around the world, according to scientists whose research has shown that the chemicals break down coral by leaching it of nutrients and disrupt the development of fish and marine life, like sea urchins and algae.
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When they were nearly wiped out in the northern Pacific, their prey, sea urchins, ballooned in number and decimated kelp forests, turning a rich environment into a barren one and also possibly contributing to numerical extinctions, notably of the Steller's sea cow.
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The very particular looking Food Pod at Feldman's is their handiwork (inspired by sea urchins, Mr. Stewart said) as is the EggXactPeel, a slim yellow plastic shell cracker and peeler that was a finalist for an innovation award at this year's housewares show.
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These people include the laborers who built the city, the street urchins whose tears have soaked its pavements, and all generations of common people lacking the political or economic advantages of those who typically lay claim to management of our public memories.
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Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death.
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Like urchins in a candy shop, we swaggered around our campuses in those pre-AIDS days, fortified by the notion that we were pioneers, breaking the ossified class structure of the stuffy old UK. The right wing have seldom held education in such high regard.
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She and Jaime are personas non grata in King's Landing, but Cersei is planning a return to prominence and activating weapons great and small, ranging from the gray-fleshed Mountainstein, who continues to creep out everyone, to a pack of sweets-loving street urchins.
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She daringly broke with the prescribed dining room etiquette of the era by perching on the arm of a chair across from her customers, extolling sea-urchin butter poured over raw sea urchins, or sea scallops still alive in their shell, awaiting the stove.
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While we have literally zero evidence to support this claim, it appears to us that Tottenham's youth players are drawn from two distinct groups: those who sound like Dickensian street urchins, and those who sound like tragic youngsters who never returned home from the Boer War.
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One company, Urchinomics, is already working on urchin ranching projects in Japan, Canada and California and sees a future where the overwhelming demand for wild urchin roe is replaced by a taste for human-raised purple urchins collected from the seafloor, allowing kelp forests to rebound.
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The fisherman then opens a jar of bright orange paté, dips a spoon inside, and gives me a taste: it's as if sea urchins, oysters, and kelp jumped into a blender, fermented for a year, and formed the ultimate representation of the ocean in one concentrated bite.
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According to Zigzag Magazine, last July, Leslie Petrik, a chemistry professor from the University of the Western Cape, collected 10 sea urchins, four brittle star fish, one common starfish, and two household rags from the area surrounding the Green Point outfall, located several miles north of Camps Bay.
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Weaving together research, personal narratives, photos, and diagrams, the author paints a vast portrait of poison, including descriptions of the venom found in spiders, snakes, octopi, urchins, Komodo dragons, duck-billed platypuses, ants, cone snails, as well as in-depth explanations on how each defense tool affects victims.
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Hoping it wasn't the kind of bait that attracted sharks (which, it turns out, are rare on the Bonaire reef) we donned our masks, followed him over to the prickly coral shoreline, avoiding black spots of spiny sea urchins emerging and disappearing in the surf, and pitched ourselves into the water.
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Against this backdrop, conservationists, commercial urchin harvesters, scientists and private interests are coming together with an unusual plan: Pay underemployed red sea urchin divers to collect the shriveled, but living, purple sea urchins and transfer them to carefully tended urchin "ranches" to be fattened up for sale to seafood markets around the world.
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Before my wife and two friends swim from one of Tamariu's bays to another, turning out of sight, all the way back to the main beach we'd hiked so far away from and find the grandfather there, scouring the seabed for urchins, lost in the thought of the richness of their flesh.
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Sea urchins were overfished, as Maine shrimp were in the late 2000s and '29s, But the most widely accepted theory for the rapid decline of this species, which extends no farther south than the Gulf of Maine, is the same force being blamed for disruption of fisheries around the globe: climate change.
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He's looking forward to the adventure — as well as the time to research and experiment (he's made Peru's signature dish, ceviche, with everything from apples, clams and sea urchins to just avocado and mushrooms, but wants to try other combinations as well), and to figure out where he might want to settle down next.
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" It left readers swooning, drowning in the riptide of her language, a watery jabberwocky of mollusks and gills and tube worms and urchins and plankton and cunners, brine-drenched, rock-girt, sessile, arborescent, abyssal, spine-studded, radiolarian, silicious, and phosphorescent, while, here and there, "the lobster feels his way with nimble wariness through the perpetual twilight.
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Junior Company: 1972-75; main company, 19963-2004; consultant: 2015-present We walked down the street in Harlem and the street urchins and drug dealers respected these dancers coming to this rough neighborhood — they see us going to the beacon of Dance Theater of Harlem that is building great human beings, not just for dance but for humanity.
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Here, where a community of potters still produced the tiles whose manganese green glaze evokes eternal scenes of Morocco and Muslim Spain, and where a few urchins stood around a square, playing at being muezzins with long pieces of piping, Sidi Mohammed ibn Nasir, a religious teacher and physician, had established a Sufi order called the Nasiri brotherhood in the 803th century.
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My vision is alternating, discontinuous, the mind holding the image (a man with a gray beard, dragging a thick rope along the shore) I left above the surface, shifting its attention to the spiny black sea urchins, the twisted volcanic rock formations below; I breathe again, to be reassured of the land, not so far away, and the bearded man is gone, replaced by the silhouette of shaggy donkeys with their inquisitive ears, watching me pass.
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