Purple sea urchins plague California, Oregon coasts

AP ^ | October 24, 2019 | GILLIAN FLACCUS and TERENCE CHEA

[samtheman]

We should breed an aggressive strain of one-eyed, one-horn flying purple urchin eaters.

(second time today I used that reference, which I haven’t thought of at all anytime in the last 50 years)

[Red Badger]

Just tell all the hippies and surfers they are a hallucinogen and they will all be gone overnight!................

[NormsRevenge]

commercial farms? for urchins? why? just vacuum up some of the hordes already there.

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[Red Badger]

ISWYDT!..................

[A Navy Vet]

Playing at a venue near you: The Purple Sea Urchins.

[Tax-chick]

Purple Sea Urchins. Didn’t they used to open for Strawberry Alarm Clock?

Followed by Japanese Breakfast.

[A Navy Vet]

"SAVE THE PURPLE SEA URCHINS!"

SAVE THE KELP!

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Trouble with Tribbles.

[Zhang Fei]

For every problem, there’s a solution:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/1992172/dalian-dining-all-about-abalone-sea-cucumbers-and-sea-urchins-5

[gundog]

So, I guess the Japanese didn’t eat them all.

[rawcatslyentist]

Go to Louisiana and pay a bunch of Cajuns to get em! If anyone can wipe em out or at least hold them in check it’s them.

[gundog]

I saw the two bands perform at The Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Not quite as cuddly as Tribbles.

[Mat_Helm]

More food for the Sea Otters. The urchins over populated because the starfish dies off ever since Fukashima, but government says that was a coincidence. RIGHT!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Purple? They are so cute.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In truth, those giant sea kelp beds are relatively new, and artificially created. Not too long ago most of that coastal area was barren.

A small group of divers went out on weekends with a simple plan. They cut the bottoms off empty plastic bleach bottles and tied a string and rock to their necks and put a sea kelp cutting inside. Just setting out a few dozen of these in season, and the giant sea kelp inside grows at a tremendous rate.

And when there is a giant sea kelp bed, all sorts of other life show up: fish, otters, seals, etc., with sea birds above. Soon there were giant sea kelp beds up the west coast.

So it is no surprise that purple urchins showed up to eat all this free food.

Typically their numbers are kept in check by sea otters, which used to occupy territory from Alaska to Baja, but are having difficulty in expanding their territory outside of central California, even with help. In turn, sea otters are preyed on by sharks.

[I got the rope]

Lol....I’m going to steal that line. Using at work in a minute

[bgill]

Yep. Put them on the menu at fancy restaurants and charge a fortune for them. Or the Long John Silver’s menu to cut their numbers down quickly.

[gleeaikin]

As biohazzards go, they are pretty.

[Clutch Martin]

Hyper-population event, maybe in response to all those asteroid are going to kill the Earth articles I’ve been reading lately.

The blue sea urchins know something but they’re not talkin because they can’t. They can only signal with natural responses to upcoming natural disasters.