Urchin Culling Caspar Cove Fort Bragg, CA - Scuba Diving Abalone Surprise!!!
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2021
- This is a short video of our first attempt at Urchin Culling (to help encourage the growth of kelp). We worked hard and got rewarded with an uplifting and unexpected surprise at the end of the dive. Skip to about 11 minutes in to see the surprise.
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Thanks for sharing!
So, so awesome to see them making a comeback!!! There's still hope that I can actually dive for them again and teach my kids to do it and fall in love with it too!
Yes, it is very encouraging to see all the abalone coming back and looking so healthy. I'm hoping that they let us take them someday.
Looks promising! Thanks for smashing!
Just trying to do my part. Thanks for watching my video.
What a great job guys. Thank YOU for this👊🏼
Urchins worth beaucoup in Europe. Bourdain loved em.
This video is why i am going to start scuba classes. I want to help clear van damme and surrounding areas of the urchins aswell. I want my families abelone spot to come back to life. I want to help.
Massive respect for the Urchin Culling - thats awesome
Thank you! i will be doing this when i can as well, we need to start a group lol
Just went diving at casper a week ago you guys did a great job on the urchins there’s not that many at casper compared to a few miles north keep it up!
Was just here! Thanks for sharing!! Found vernal pools filled with them but was unsure what the method was for removal. Been researching so I can go back and help!
purples crawl right into a crab pot if its bated with leaves, the leaves create algae that urchins consume
Man I love Caspar beach it’s one of my favorite camp sites and has some of the best spear fishing if you really want a good place to go just head down the road a big and you’ll see a large bridge swim straight out from their and you find Lin cod city. Entry is free and it’s a great time👍
You sure there are still fish out there? I haven't seen much of anything this year.
So excited to go and get tons and eat up! I'm all the way out in Sacramento, but I wanna go try this and get a big haul to chow down on and it looks like Caspar cove is on my map!
We have another dive planned for February 19 thru 21st.
@@breakingh2o311 that's what I'm talking about! Let's try to save those poor kelp forests!
@@breakingh2o311 I'm interested in helping - how's the work going and how can I get involved? Are you harvesting any to sell to the ranchers? I hear urchinomics will buy these now.
@@DavidNortonTV hey David. You can get involved very easily. On Facebook , there is a group named "the watermans alliance". You can get all the info you need there.
Joshua Russo is the contact person.
It's a great cause and a lot of fun. I highly recommend it.
Nice! How deep where you? I want to help but I’ll be free diving
Hi Nick, Our deepest was 20 feet. You can surely find urchins in shallower water. Have fun!
@@breakingh2o311 if you ever do this again i would also like to be involved, i free dive as well but I will invest in tanks if it means i can help our local ab population and eco system in general.
Why are the purples expendable vs the others. Are the others beneficial?
That's a great question. The purples are the most prolific. The real problem for sure. The reds are commercially harvested (for their eggs) in that area so we leave them.
We only have permission to cull the purples from Department of fish and wildlife.
@@breakingh2o311 That's awesome. I will have to look into that. Do you know where I can find species names for the blacks n reds?
The red urchins are also suffering because the overpopulation of purples means that they can't compete for the dwindling amount of kelp and algae in the area. The reds generally prefer deeper water, but in recent years they have been pushed more into the shallower intertidal zones in search of food, where they are more subject to predation and poaching.
This is great stuff, thanks for sharing and culling. I have a question. Is it fairly sandy closer to shore? I was thinking of doing some crabbing there for dungees. Have you seen many there? They don't like the rocky sections so I want to avoid that. Thanks for any guidance!
y no eat sea urchin?
The purple urchins are overpopulated and starving. They have no uni inside them to eat. Thanks for watching and commenting.
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As for all those Abalone you saw, for one that looks like an artificial breeding colony where biologists have brought Abalone in from wherever they found them to have them close together because Abalone are broadcast spawners both the male and female just blow their junk into the water and have to hope that it meets up to create new life so when the population is depressed from overfishing and starvation there's not enough Abalone close enough together to actually end up with fertilized eggs so in some areas the biologists go out and harvest Abalone from a much larger area and bring them close together so that when they spawn they have a chance of being successful. hopefully that's what this was, because if that was just a natural population cluster of Abalone. being in the middle of an urchin Barren with no food they're all going to die of starvation in the next while
ok wait, appreciate the effort, but I heard crushing urchins releases its sperm and eggs into the water so they end up reproducing while you do this. pretty sure you're supposed to remove the urchins entirely.
I believe that you are incorrect. I cannot say for sure because this is all part of a test being conducted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and other agencies like Reef Check California. This urchin culling has been going on for some time and it appears to be working. If you are really interested, do some research or better yet come dive with us and see for yourself. The urchins are not reproducing and the kelp is returning.
@@breakingh2o311 thanks for the response, I read into it. yes you're right, it's currently being experimented with so it's not confirmed or anything, but the hypothesis is that this will work on the barrens with starving urchins and empty gonads, but in places the urchins have food and have full gonads may be risky.
@@chimyshark That is why we are only conducting this scientific experiment in specific areas that are being constantly monitored. I'm glad that you are interested. We need more people that are paying attention that what is happening. Good work!
I hate to see this but I’m pretty sure that’s legal directions are still protected they still have a limit and you’re not allowed to waste a protected food source You have to gather them within intention of being eaten
caspar cove has special regulations for kelp restoration