The little urchins that can command a princely price
smh.com.au / November 9, 2004
When it comes to sea urchins, size really doesn't matter.
"It's what's inside that counts," Jane Williamson, a marine biologist, said yesterday as she sliced open one of her creatures to expose its internal sex organs, or roe, as they are known on the world's lucrative seafood markets.....could become a multi-million dollar export industry for Australia.
It could be huge," she said, noting that live urchins sold overseas for about $9 each.
