Purple sea urchins have eaten 95 percent of the underwater forests along California’s Mendocino Coast. How can travelers help combat this? One way is to dine on the urchins wherever they’re available
Sea urchin can be prepared in a variety of ways. At Sierra Mar at Post Ranch Inn, in Big Sur, California, a lobe of urchin tops ahi tuna raviolo with sea urchin mousse, red shiso, ponzu, and wasabi oil.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
“For me, the urchin festival is really about teaching people what’s going on underneath the waves,” says Cally Dym, owner of Little River Inn, one of the festival’s hosts. “Eating the purple urchin is our way of helping the whole ecosystem down there.” , which received a share of proceeds from the event, says her goal is to get everyone in town to give urchin a try for the environment.
A diver inspects a stalk of giant brown kelp reduced to a holdfast by purple sea urchins that continue to attack the bare stalk.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.lets trained community members wade into the problem through beach surveys that track what washes up on shore, such as segments of bull kelp and abalone, in addition to urchins. Another program gathers volunteers in search of juvenile sunflower sea stars.
Since 1984, scientists have been tracking changes in the kelp canopy all along California’s coast. Now the Nature Conservancy, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, anda newly launched site, called
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