"Now the black sea urchin disappeared from all the areas I ... They point out that other marine animals continue to support the corals. Other experts fear a repetition of what happened 40 years ...
But controlling the animal’s population is not an easy task. “There are a lot of sea urchins in the areas where seagrasses have disappeared,” said another Kanagawa researcher Shozo Takamura.
Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...