By Neil Ramsden

Ishinomaki was one of the worst-hit areas in the 2011 tsunami and is still recovering; Urchinomics and 'Fisherman Japan', which looks to make fishing fashionable, aim to help

By Neil Ramsden

The company -- which removes urchins from valuable kelp forests, where they are a pest, and raises them to a prized delicacy -- hopes this RAS will be the first of many

Labrador Gem has already sent out its first shipments, and the hope is up to two per week during the winter months if all goes well

'Huge stretches of tidal flatlands northeast of Dalian, the peninsula’s port city, have been carved into patchworks of ponds so vast they are visible in satellite maps'

By Jason Smith

'Permitted aquaculture facilities in coastal California are as rare as unicorns,' Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda of Urchinomics said. 'Now it’s just a matter of the lawyers working out the details'

Fujitsu and Coast Research Engineering hope to develop aquafarming techniques free of human labor

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans set the quota for sea cucumbers in the area at 6,106t for 2019, 1,000t more than last year

By Neil Ramsden

The initiative -- which catch sea urchins which are harming the environment, ranches them to improve roe yield, then sells them up a transparent chain -- is seeing results

Scientists in New Zealand are investigating whether medicinal properties of sea urchin could be used to develop treatments for heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s

'If this is true – and given there are no denials we have every reason to be concerned – then it is wrong, on multiple grounds' -- Derek Butler, Association of Seafood Producers