Christopher Tompkins has been using the Cultured Abalone’s purple urchin since Broad Street ... urchin is sometimes draped atop raw oysters on the half shell, or steamed as a mushimono with ...

Credit: Courtesy of Leah Mata Abalone shells and the rich meat inside have ... And the kelp that survived faced a greater threat: purple urchins. After their primary predator fell victim to ...

The biologist works with purple urchin divers, who bring the creatures to the Cultured Abalone Farm in Goleta ... its juice sucked right out of the shell. "It's electric. The citrus, salt brine ...

Abalone shells and the rich meat inside have sustained ... And the kelp that survived faced a greater threat: purple urchins. After their primary predator fell victim to a viral disease, the ...

But the kelp forests along the Northern California coast have, of course, nearly disappeared, leaving the seafloor covered in purple ... foraged for abalone and pearlescent shells that they ...

dabbling in seaweeds and purple sea urchins. Woodley, voice-over: Honestly, what I've known about abalone is they have beautiful shells, they've been a massive source of food in California for a ...

“We’re seeing swarms of purple urchins absolutely eating ... Divers watching the abalone shrink in their shells and die of starvation have struggled to restrain themselves, meanwhile.

Their low numbers forced the state to close down the abalone fishery ... Because the purple urchin have devastated their main food source, their shells are mostly empty and devoid of the highly ...

While they may look unexciting on the outside, abalone shells contain a thick inner layer of iridescent mother-of-pearl that has long driven humans to collect them and turn them into home decor ...