The inner shell of a sea urchin is a hollow globe, scored in five curved sections that taper at the ends into a small hole at the top and bottom. |
Scattered on the cloth are pinecones and seashells, a sand dollar, a starfish, a sea urchin. |
Settling near a hungry snail could be disastrous for a peanut worm, and landing too far from kelp would doom a sea urchin to starvation. |
Yields of herring, sea urchin and rockfish also dropped dramatically during this season. |
Opening the small cover of the wooden bowl, you can see a golden sea urchin covering a small stewed crab cake. |
The state of California encouraged the fledgling industry in the 1970s when a lucrative market was found for sea urchin roe in Japan. |