>>5109274
Seattle here

Albanian refugees killed them all for their seeds

Tragic

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is the Urchin genoci... i mean culling still active?

>>5109308
>Albanian refugees killed them all for their seeds
LETS FUCKING GO ALBANIA NUMBER 1

It's crazy to me that more people don't care about a species thats basically holding up an incredible important ecosystem on it's back.
It's not even speculation, we've literally seen the kelp forests all along the PNW collapse along with Pycnopodia numbers.

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The noble Abalone fights on

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>>5111668
or we can get more crabs to eat them

>>5112886
I want to steam that crab and eat it with budder and lemon.

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>>5112937
People who eat crustaceans really concern me. I have tried king prawn and crab and the taste as well as texture sets of alarm bells across my brain. I can eat just about everything, offal and all, but eating mushrooms or something with an exoskeleton is just incompatible to my biological makeup.

>>5112955
how, you dont eat chitin, retard

>>5112989
Firstly, not all exoskeletons contain chitin. Secondly, prawns have chitin.

Retard.

>>5112996
and i ask again, retard, are you eating the chitin, because if you are, that means youre eating the exoskeleton, which again, you dont eat that, the only eatable parts of a shrimp are the guts and the tail muscle

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>>5112997
You absolute mongoloid.

Yes you fucking can eat the exoskeleton. Any good restraunt that serve King Prawn will serve them with shell on. It's edible when cleaned and cooked properly.

>>5112998
>hes eating the exoskeleton
>calls other people mongoloids
lol, lmao even

>>5113007
>calls anon a retard for eating something with chitin
>anon points out that prawn exoskeleton contains chitin
>pivots to calling an anon retard for eating prawn with an exoskeleton as its unedible
>shits pants in front of everyone when anon points out that shell is edible and served at restraunts
ngmi retard-sama

>>5113008
>doubles down on eating the exoskeleton
lmao

>>5112886
crabs will not be even remotely capable of picking up the slack Pycnopodia left behind.

PNW diver here. Found one on my last trip to the coast in October, that was nice to see. They’re not extinct, not even threatened really. Just a slow growing species taking a decade or two to come back from a natural plague. The smaller and faster growing stars are already very plentiful!

>>5114177
thats great to hear, i read they were contemplating putting them on the endangered list, which i honestly thought they had already done, but good to hear that they seem to be recovering where you're at.

they are unironically one of my favorite animals, really love Echinoderms in general.

>>5112998
Do you also eat fish heads and bones when they serve the fish whole?

>>5112989
Fungal cell walls are made of chitin so all mushrooms contain significant amounts of chitin

>>5115622
yeah, and you shouldnt eat mushrooms, whats the problem here