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University of Maine graduate student Pamelia Fraungruber surveys one of the sea urchin release sites<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sea urchin aquaculture is known as echiniculture.\u00a0 Strategies considered for grow-out of sea urchins to market include sea cages,\u00a0 sea ranching, and land-based tank systems.\u00a0 From 2009 – 2012 the Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) worked with Larry Harris of the University of New Hampshire\u00a0 to investigate sea ranching and tank culture of sea urchins.\u00a0 The project was funded by the Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center (NRAC).\u00a0 Hatchery seed were planted out at plots on three ocean lease sites, while another group from the same hatchery batch was reared at the CCAR in a tank system specially designed for urchins.\u00a0 All hatchery urchins released at the lease sites were first tagged in the hatchery with fluorochromes so that they could be identified with microscopy, following recapture and dissection of the jaws. Graduate student Pamelia Fraungruber and other divers collected urchins from the lease site plots every four months for two years and analyzed them for growth and presence or absence of the tag.\u00a0 At the same time, Pamelia reared 10,000 urchins in the tank system to market size, while testing such things as diets, feeding strategies, grading methods, stocking densities, growth and survival.<\/p>\n

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Sea urchin jaw recovered from a release site. The bright green fluorescent line indicates that this urchin came from the hatchery.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project was extremely informative and it yielded valuable data that can be applied to future efforts.\u00a0 More information regarding our findings can be found below.<\/p>\n

Final report to NRAC sea urchin project<\/a><\/p>\n

Fraungruber et. al. Fluorochrome Marking of Out-planted Green Sea Urchins, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis<\/em>, for Sea Ranching and Restocking Programs in the Gulf of Maine, USA. 2015. Bulletin of Fisheries Research Agency Japan. No. 40, pp 135 – 143.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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