Do Sea Urchins Reproduce Slowly?

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The red urchin, which is a deeper water species, probably doing fine. But there is a northern atlantic species called ekina esculentus. And as you can tell from the name, it's a very well known, much, very long known species of urchin that was harvested for its uny for many, many, many years to the point where it's become threatened. i've silly question. It's like anything. If you think about birds, you know, how are birds doing? Well, if you're a starling in north america, or any of a number of house sparrows or whatever, they're probably doing pretty

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