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Green Sea Urchins (Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis) in Maine - Fishery, Monitoring, and Research Information

Some of the links below are PDF files, and require Adobe Reader (download free here) to view or print.  If you require an alternate format, please contact Maggie Hunter.

 

 

Maine's Commercial Sea Urchin Fishery

• Annual Maine sea urchin landings
• "After the Gold Rush" article in Down East Magazine, December 2008
• Counts of Maine's commercial sea urchin licenses, 1992-2008 - pdf file, 2 pages, 159 kb
• Maine's sea urchin fishery - DMR report, 2004 - pdf file, 4 pages, 259 kb
• Maine sea urchin landings and harvester participation data, 1987-2003 - pdf file, 1 page, 21 kb
• "The Green Sea Urchin in Maine, Fishery and Biology" - a general summary by Stanley Chenoweth, DMR, 1994

Monitoring Maine's Sea Urchin Stock

• Maine's sea urchin dive survey summary, November 2008 - pdf file, 2 pages, 275 kb
• Report on Maine's sea urchin monitoring program, DMR, April 2008 - pdf file, 71 pages, 1.6mb
• Report on Maine's sea urchin monitoring program, DMR, Jan. 2007 - pdf file, 34 pages, 1.3mb
• Report on Maine's sea urchin monitoring program, DMR, March 2005 - pdf file, 70 pages, 1.9 mb

Maine Sea Urchin Research

• Research information and research priorities set in 2000
• List of sea urchin projects funded by the Maine sea urchin research fund, brief project descriptions - pdf file, 5 pages, 116 kb
• "Green Gold - Scientific Findings for Management of Maine's Sea Urchin Fishery" - by Peter Taylor, 2004, pdf file, 32 pages, 1.9 mb
• Project results, most recent first
  • Report on canthaxanthin in sea urchins from under salmon pens in Cobscook Bay, November 2007 - pdf files - full report (366 kb) or summary (175 kb)
  • Report by Paul Molyneaux on sea urchin fisheries in Chile - 2007, pdf file, 16 pages, 1.1 mb
  • Report on the effectiveness of escape panels in urchin drags - 2007, pdf file, 63 pages, 1.85 mb
  • Sea urchin conservation areas in Maine: winter survey results 2000 - 2003 - Richard Wahle and Julien Gaudette, 2004, pdf file, 37 pages, 259 kb
    For more information, see John Vavrinec's PhD thesis
  • A simulation framework for developing optimal sampling strategies for the Maine sea urchin stock - by Robert Grabowski, Yong Chen, Robert Russell, and Margaret Hunter, 2003, pdf file, 54 pages, 898 kb
  • Development, evaluation, and application of a stock assessment framework for the Maine sea urchin stock - Yong Chen, Margaret Hunter, and Minoru Kanaiwa, 2003 - pdf file, 113 pages, 1.4 mb
  • Estimating the Maine green sea urchin stock biomass using a spatial statistics approach -  Robert Grabowski, Robert Russell, Yong Chen and Margaret Hunter, pdf file, 45 pages, 1.1 mb
  • Reseeding the green sea urchin in depleted habitats - Amanda Leland, John Vavrinec, and Dr. Robert Steneck, U. Maine, 2002, pdf file, 25 pages, 214 kb
    For more information, see Amanda Leland's masters thesis
  • Results of Zone 2 urchin harvester poll, February 2003 - pdf file, 26 pages, 677 kb
  • Results of Zone 1 urchin harvester poll, December 2002 - pdf file, 15 pages, 393 kb
  • Testing two large-mesh sea urchin diver catch bags - summary, pdf file, 2 pages, 290 kb
    Testing two large-mesh sea urchin diver catch bags - full report by Margaret Hunter, 2002, pdf file, 31 pages, 1.5 mb
  • Cobscook Bay urchin relocation report - Robert Russell, 2001. pdf file, 17 pages, 652 kb
  • An economic analysis of the market for Maine sea urchins - James Wilen & Cathy Wessells, 1997, pdf file, 88 pages, 4.0 mb

For more Maine sea urchin research information, go to the University of Maine web site, and search for "sea urchin".

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