Ocean Gold

These sea urchins are one golden opportunity to catch when hunger strikes you.

They were selling them 3 for 9 dollars.

What you have to do is cut around the top where the mouth is and pull everything out.

Then you chop up the meat and fry it with eggs for break fast.

Here they gave it to you in sliced pieces with lemon.

They were very good.

You would not want to step on one of them in the water because the needles are quite sharp
and have venomous spines and pedicellaria.
The spines give you very painful wounds and the pedicellaria which are in between the spines have venom. Both result in a lot of pain and even infection which can even result in paralysis

fatigue, death, respiratory problems. So even touching them with your hands can be risky if you let it.

The urchins here seem to be small but some have spines that are 8 inches long and if you are a diver, you don't want to bump into them any more than you want to bump into jelly fish.

In any event what fishermen bring in their boats to show the people is indeed interesting and worth going to Steveston to see what they come up with next.

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