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  • Painted anemone (Urticina crassicornis) eating a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) on rock wall off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Painted anemone (Urticina crassicornis) eating a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) on rock wall off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) feeding on a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus). Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, Canada, North Pacific Ocean.
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  • Close up details of the spines and tube feet of a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A Fire Urchin (Asthenosoma varium) close-up detail showing the color and pattern of spines on its surface. Image made off Alor, Indonesia
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  • Northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) feeding on a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus). Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, Canada, North Pacific Ocean.
    20210725-DSC_7999.jpg
  • Northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) feeding on a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus). Queen Charlotte Strait, British Columbia, Canada, North Pacific Ocean.
    20210725-DSC_8007.jpg
  • Caribbean Long-spined Sea Urchin (Diadema antillarum) at night in The Bahamas.
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  • Close up details of the spines of a red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) in Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Great Sculpin (Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus) with sea urchin spine in the cheek. Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
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  • Close-up abstract detail of a sea urchin off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
    20210321-500_5318.jpg
  • A mother and son search for sea urchins in the seagrass beds at low tide in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • At low tide in Bali, seagrass beds are shallow enough to wade out and catch sea urchins. This mom and son team haul in the days catch.
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  • A mother and son collect sea urchins among the seagrass beds in Indonesia. Millions people in developing nations rely on nutrition supported by seagrasses.
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  • Red Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) portrait. Nanoose Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, North Pacific Ocean.
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  • A young couple look for sea urchins and fruit among seagrass beds at low tide in Indonesia.
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  • A mother and son search for sea urchins among the seagrass off a popular beach in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • A well-camouflaged C-O Sole (Pleuronichthys coenosus) rests on rocks covered in coralline algae with a plumose anemone (Metridium senile), white-spotted anemone (Urticina lofotensis), red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus). Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • At night sea urchins are more active, making them easier to find. Image made in the seagrass beds off Bali, Indonesia
    Urchin Harvesting
  • After a long day catching sea urchins among the seagrass beds in Indonesia a mother dries her face. Her son, in the background, looks for any final urchins. Millions of people around the world fish in seagrass meadows and millions more depend on fishes that owe some part of the life cycle to seagrass meadows.
    Food Security
  • A sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Sunflower stars experienced a more than 90% mortality rate from sea star wasting disease which emerged in 2013. Urchins, a prey item of the sunflower star, have since proliferated which has lead to major decreases in kelp cover. Kelp is a carbon sink.
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  • A sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) off Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Sunflower stars experienced a more than 90% mortality rate from sea star wasting disease which emerged in 2013. Urchins, a prey item of the sunflower star, have since proliferated which has lead to major decreases in kelp cover. Kelp is a carbon sink.
    20210709-500_1555.jpg
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