Ocean Job Board

We are hiring in Japan! Offering a European compensation package! Urchinomics is a restorative aquaculture venture that aims to turn an environmental challenge into a commercial, ecological, and social opportunity. Our global challenge: Due to a combination of overfishing of predatory species, climate change, and pollution, sea urchin populations have exploded, causing catastrophic imbalances in coastal ecosystems around the world. Uncontrolled quantities of sea urchins overgraze kelp forests and seagrass meadows, turning once pristine and vibrant, carbon-sequestering marine ecosystems into lifeless, barren deserts, or "urchin barrens." Devoid of food, these urchins then starve away and become empty shells that just barely survive. Empty sea urchins have no nutritional value, so predatory fish avoid eating them. Urchin fishers have no incentive to fish them either, as they have no commercial value (no roe). Without any predatory pressure, urchin barrens can persist for decades.
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