This is how to clean the SEA URCHIN for food | #Sea Animals | #Shorts

Sea urchins are animals that are typically small, spiny and round. They live in all the earth’s oceans, at depths ranging from the tide line to 15,000 feet. Because they cannot swim, they live on the seafloor. Their main defense against more agile predators like eels and otters is their hard, spiny test, or shell.

Sea urchin mainly eat marine vegetation like algae and kelp. The also prey on sessile, or immobile, sea creatures such as coral and sea sponges.

In many international cuisines, from Alaska to New Zealand, the gonads, or roe, are a delicacy. Typically, people eat them raw with lemon juice or olive oil. In other regions, chefs incorporate the roe in gourmet sauces, omelettes and soups.

The Japanese enjoy the roe in uni sushi. They consume about 50,000 tons of urchin roes per year, which amounts to approximately 80 percent of the world’s commercially processed supply.

A few of the 950 species of sea urchins are poisonous. Some carry poison in their spines while others have venom in their tubular feet. Urchins in tropical environments are more likely to be poisonous. When you step on a poisonous sea urchins and the venom enters a puncture in the skin, you feel an immediate burning sensation. This can last for many hours. Other symptoms that may develop from a sea urchin sting include nausea, vomiting, difficulty breathing and muscle weakness. However, even the venom of the most poisonous species, the flower sea urchin, is rarely fatal.
(Source: a-z-animals.com).

Video and photos were taken at Murcielagos Island also known as Bayangan Island located at Labason, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. The island is rich with corals reefs and other marine lives. It is also the center of tourism in the locality. It has a white sand covered with pieces of small coral stones.

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