because they eat some many purple sea urchins and help keep their populations low.” Unfortunately, Lamb said, the sea star population has drastically declined in recently years, due to a ...

Just a few administrative details need to be worked out before kelp-killing purple sea urchins start getting hammered off the ...

Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars To save kelp forests ...

Despite their low numbers, sea otters consume voracious kelp-eating sea urchins at a high enough rate that kelp forests continue to persist and provide habitat for numerous species. Without sea ...

Sea urchins are regarded as a pest in Australian waters where they eat kelp and seagrass to create barren wastelands on the ocean floor. The problem is only expected to get worse with warming ...

Sweet and briny, thick and juicy with a melt in your mouth texture, a slice of sea urchin on the wharf at St Helens on Tasmania’s east coast in Australia is a rare treat. Diver Cameron Mead ...