urchins
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Joey Jeffers, who co-owns the Thousand Islands Bait Store in Alexandria Bay, N.Y., told me he recently landed walleye on urchins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"In the supermarket, you find luxury products, sea urchins or Dom Perignon champagne, and vegetables have become extremely expensive," pushing some people to do their shopping in a neighbouring town.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Crinoids are part of the phylum Echinodermata which also boasts sea urchins and sea cucumbers.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
In these cases, intense grazing by urchins can strip seafloors of plant life, damaging marine habitats and creating so-called "urchin barrens."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
She played tag and grass ball with them and she pried prickly sea urchins off the rocks, to eat the sweet meat inside.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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