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Show r KAOt IV Pt c h r. 31 S'. L Sea Urchins May Show Up On The American Dinner Plate In a few American homes very few a tasty past of marinated sea urchins is considered a delicacy. The vast majority of Americans never encouter the spiny creatures, and probably are content to keep things that way. A few regard them as pests that should be eradicated. Out the National Science Foundation is sponsoring a program that could change all this. With a grant from the foundation, researchers at San Diego State University in California are studying the possibility of harvesting sea urchins for food. SKA I'fU'HI.VS are a good source of protein and long have been a popular dish in many countries, the National Geographic Society says. F b 4 11 Hundreds of thousands of the cooked, atop balls of little marine animals are vinegared rice, as sushi. Or eaten every year in Europe, sea urchins may be mixed soy sauce particularly in nations bor- with sake wine and to make a paste-lik- e dip for dering the Mediterranean. bite-size- d pieces of raw In season, French restaurants regularly feature raw squid. The paste also can be bars offering not only spread on slices of cucummounds of freshly opened ber, much as caviar is oysters and clams, but also spread on thin toast or crackers. deftly trepanned sea urchins. ONLY A FEW fish marJapanese enjoy them un- kets in the United States sell sea urchins, principally to immigrants who have brought a liking for the dish with them from other lands. In gourmet food shops imcans of ported three-ounc- e smoked sea urchins cost upwards of $4. Most Americans. however, never see the animals except as shells in museum collections. But to entrepreneurs who harvest kelp, or seaweed, for processing into animal feed, sea urchins are a costly nuisance because the voracious eaters can destroy a bed of kelp. Divers often are employed to rid underwater farms of sea urchins. About 700 varieties of sea urchins exist in waters around the world. The most common sea urchin, Arbacia Irom violet to a deep purplish-- red. MOST SKA urchins less than two inches are in diameter, and the skin that covers their shell is thickly covered with movable spines, sometimes several inches long, and often poisonous. Stepping barefoot on a sea urchin at the beach is no fun. The long, thick spines of a species called the slate pencil urchin actually were used as pencils by early aries on South Sea islands. While some sea urchins stun and eat smaller forms of marine life, most are vegetarians. Walking across the seabed on their spines, they subsist by scraping ML If the California study shows they can be raised in too large quantity without much difficulty, sea urchins on may begin showing up American more dinner tables. 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