[yesthatjallen]

...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.

SNIP

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.

A business opportunity.

[kosciusko51]

The boogeyman is climate change, again...

[dinodino]

Yum...send them my way!

[NohSpinZone]

How is this possible with all the sushi joints around the world? The eggs are such a delicacy not to mention the meat.

[Da Coyote]

That’s nothing compared to the threat of blue progressives who plague California and Oregon.

[Tax-chick]

Will this be followed by a sea otter population explosion?

[Honest Nigerian]

For anyone who believes in evolution why is this a problem?
Survival of the ones that survive (or so they say).

[Buckeye McFrog]

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

[Bringbackthedraft]

They’re gonna need bigger Otters.

[Maceman]

SAVE THE PURPLE SEA URCHINS!

[Red Badger]

Eat them.............................

[Maceman]

SAVE THE PURPLE SEA URCHINS!

[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)

[NormsRevenge]

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

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[A Navy Vet]

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

[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

[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.

[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.