I never seen sea urchins in Monterey Bay before, but i’ve I haven’t been able to type because my back surgeries for the last four years. I’ve seen them invading kelp forest in the channel Islands but, never this far north before. When I lived up north, we would see the occasional urchin in Puget Sound, and we snag them up and feed them to the wolf eels. The two things we saved the kelp and we helped out the wolf eels. When did the urchins start showing up in numbers like this in Monterey (just curious)?
@@calvinwen9320 thank you for the info. We started seeing them in Puget Sound around 1994, when I lived up there. whenever we found them we would take them, cut them open and feed them to the wolf eels who absolutely love urchins, especially when it’s hand fed to them. Those Wolf eels will be your best friend when start feeding them. 🤫
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I never seen sea urchins in Monterey Bay before, but i’ve I haven’t been able to type because my back surgeries for the last four years. I’ve seen them invading kelp forest in the channel Islands but, never this far north before. When I lived up north, we would see the occasional urchin in Puget Sound, and we snag them up and feed them to the wolf eels. The two things we saved the kelp and we helped out the wolf eels. When did the urchins start showing up in numbers like this in Monterey (just curious)?
I read that the purple urchin problem started in 2014. Northern california kelp was decimated and Monterey also has extensive urchin barrens.
@@calvinwen9320 thank you for the info. We started seeing them in Puget Sound around 1994, when I lived up there. whenever we found them we would take them, cut them open and feed them to the wolf eels who absolutely love urchins, especially when it’s hand fed to them. Those Wolf eels will be your best friend when start feeding them. 🤫