Black Urchins Matter.
Obviously white sea urchin supremacy.
It means the Gulf of Eilat is raaaacist.
it means that someone discharged something into the seawater that killed the sea urchins.
They just don’t know what that something is—much less the someone who did it.
The first thing they have to figure out is what killed the sea urchins. Then they can track back from there to the who where and how.
Some sea urchins are edible, some are even very expensive delicacies.
Are these ones edible? I know sea urchins are food for a number of marine critters.
Is this racism?!
I’ve read that sea urchins are beneficial to coral reefs because they help control the algae growth.
What? What? Eilat’s lil black urchins are being killed? Are they being lynched? Any cross burning? Night riders? Is the klan active in Eilat? Where is the NAACP? Does the SPLC know about this?
I read the whole article & they appear to be ruling out pollution. The die off is very wide spread around the Med so it’s not a local toxic waste discharge.
Reparations will take care of the problem. I am starting a pre-distribution signup list for people who identify as a black sea urchin to receive reparations. Getting on the list requires a $10,000 deposit which will be refunded when reparations are distributed.
Please make your deposit checks out to “CASH”
-Reverend Al “Shape-Shifter” Sharpton.
Just the other day there was a show about the plague of urchins off the CA coast I think. It was doom for all the other species because nothing could be done to control them. Now this about urchins disappearing completely. Maybe California can get the recipe for dispatching sea urchins from the Israelis!
No Dr. F., you idiot, the new plague was supposed to kill all black street urchins, not sea urchins!
"I found myself on top of him face to face with the blow-hole. I could barely see from all of the waves crashing down on top of me but I knew something was there so I reached my hand and pulled out the obstruction!"
Cool. Sounds like swimming there just got a lot safer.
Nature just thinning out the crowd. That's what it does....
Back in the early 90's at a metro park near me, the raccoon population had exploded and nature doing what it does best, infected the population with a form of distemper. While playing the golf course there, we encountered a half dozen raccoons wandering aimlessly, infected with the disease.
Should have evolved to wear masks.
Euell Gibbons Must be sad: “ … ever eat a sea urchin? Many parts are edible…”
This discussion reminds of the mysterious mass die-offs of (mostly) Asian Carp below some of the TVA dams. (I believe there is a current episode of this below Barkley and KY Dams @ present.)
Various diseases were suspected, but it turned out the culprit was “over-oxygenation” of the tailwaters during large water releases in the springtime. The carp’ gills can’t handle the high oxygen levels.
The negative is tens of thousands of large fish dying in a “touristy” area. Phew!
The positive is that it is an invasive and harmful species taking the hit. And, I’m sure the catfish love it. I’d not be at all surprised if one of those tailwaters or downstream produces a record blue, channel, or flathead catfish one of these days...