Events the weekend of June 16 include tide pooling, sake tasting, and the chance to try your hand at diving for urchin.
Tag: urchin fishery
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Urchin-smashing off to strong start this year with 30 recreational divers at Caspar Cove
Divers taking a hammer to purple urchin is just one piece of the goal to bring back the bull kelp: “We’re still struggling to acquire multi-year funding for restoration work at large.”
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Urchin diver spots another sunflower sea star north of Noyo Harbor
The pycnopodia sighting brought “a bit of hope to a gloomy situation,” as diver Grant Downie said he’s been discouraged by low kelp numbers and not many viable red urchins.
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Red urchin fishery still struggling on North Coast after kelp collapse; ‘everybody’s scared’
California is waiting on approval of another federal fishery disaster declaration as costs mount and quality uni is harder to find.