Sentences with phrase «pink urchin»

The researchers also tested some aspects of the food quality of the pink urchin roe.

While it's not yet clear whether the pink urchin will indeed be opened up to commercial fishing, the research could help commercial fishing operations and state agencies plan for a future where climate change has made its mark on the oceans.

While some of the qualities, such as color and consistency, were a good match, they found that the pink urchin roe on average weighed 80 % less than the red urchin.

Not exact matches

Urchin bodies are mobile pincushions in purples and pinks to browns and blacks, bristling with a mix of spiky spines and soft, stretchy tube feet.

The yellow mussels and pink sea urchins living around the fissures are unlike those creatures living around the better known vents in the Pacific.

«Tasty and pink, sea urchin species may be a climate - tolerant food source.»

The study found that the pink sea urchin is most abundant at a depth of 250 to 300 meters (820 to 984 feet), similar depths where spot prawn fishers set their traps, and that winter was the primary time when the urchins produced edible roe.

The researchers suggest that legalizing the fishing of pink sea urchin as a bycatch to the prawn fishery could allow prawn fishers to sell the urchins they already catch, rather than throwing them back.