First assessment of invasive long-spined sea urchin fishery
(AUSTRALIA, 6/11/2020)
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) researchers have produced the first scientific assessment of Tasmania’s growing long-spined sea urchin fishery.
The expansion of the commercial fishery is one of a number of measures addressing growth in the population of invasive sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii and the barrens they create by overgrazing reefs along Tasmania’s East Coast.
?Pictured: IMAS's Paul Armstrong and Stuart Isles collect data at Ralph’s Tasmanian Seafood, Electrona.
A single long-spined urchin was found in St Helens in 1978, and since then the Tasmanian population has ...
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