The number of urchins in Jakarta has tripled since the Crisis to between 30, 000 and 40, 000.
Now he goes after sea urchins and collects kombu seaweed, though wholesalers won't pay much for either.
And what with blinding hangovers from drinking on airplanes to soften the shock of first-class seats filled with graying, jowly urchins I often do.
As their numbers declined in the 1980s, those of the urchins rose.
Bottom-feeders prey on young lobsters, but they also prey on sea urchins.
The skeletons of brittlestars, which are sea creatures related to starfish and sea urchins, contain thousands of tiny lenses that collectively form a single, distributed eye.
And in that time the fishing industry could bounce back from its slump, allowing Doug Monk and his crew to return to catching urchins and sea cucumbers.
In fact, the indications are that the more mature red sea urchins are the most prolific producers of sperm and eggs, and are perfectly capable of breeding even when incredibly old.
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Until recently Woodside and about 100 hundred other divers searched Puget Sound for sea cucumbers and urchins to sell to buyers in Asia, where the items are considered delicacies.
Cambodia has one of the highest rates of child abandonment in South-East Asia, its orphanages are overcrowded and homeless urchins roam the capital, Phnom Penh, sniffing glue and begging.
There, we meet young Peter (Charlie Rowe) and a band of other urchins who pick pockets and rob for the man who rescued them from a life of drudgery.
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Sea urchins graze the kelp that lobsters use as cover, so the initial drop in bottom-feeders did not benefit lobsters since although they had fewer predators, they were more exposed.
Boys and girls dive for sea urchins, cracking them open on the rocks before sucking out the innards - 'kina' or sea eggs are a muchloved delicacy among Maori people.
At traffic lights in Kuala Lumpur, taxis are not besieged, as they are these days in Jakarta, by ragged urchins and old women rubbing their stomachs and pointing to their mouths.
The prospect of way more kids puts us in mind of Dickensian England, where teeming, filthy hordes of ugly, unhealthy urchins scrambled grotesquely for survival and advantage in a deeply unjust lifeworld.
But in this one, Lyra Belacqua (played by Dakota Blue Richards) has her own posse, made up of water-dwelling Gyptians, fierce urchins, changeable spirit daemons, plus a bear, a witch and a wardrobe of skirts.
More sea urchins and other tiny shellfish have been swept ashore at adjoining Broad Haven and Little Haven beaches in St Brides Bay, Pembrokeshire and in some places the golden sands were inches deep in empty shells.
An examination of the unique eyes of skate (ray fish) led to advances in combating blindness, the horseshoe crab was crucial in developing a test for bacterial contamination, and sea urchins helped in the development of test-tube fertilization.
The auctions begin after 4am for costly boxes of sea urchins and move on to the warehouse for bluefin tuna, where the dealers walk round inspecting the huge animals with a torch in one gumboot and a handspike in the other.
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