Good afternoon. On the air is Vladivostok state television and radio company special television project "Discover Primorye". And I am Anastasia Zemlyanskaya.

And today the main character of our program is one of the most unusual inhabitants of the sea coast of Primorsky Region.

It will certainly attract the attention of the experienced traveler and the tourist who will be in Primorye for the first time. Sea urchin lives on the sea bottom, sometimes he got out on the coastal strip. 

In the Japan Sea which bathe the coast of Primorye Region live about a dozen varieties of sea urchins, but only two of them belong to fishing kind: ball-shaped and straightening urchins.

Sea urchins are completely innocuous and harmless animals, they eat algae and some marine organisms. Sea urchins can move by the feet on the ventral side.

Sea urchins appears in the same time as the rest of the echinoderms, about 450 million years ago.

The kind of sea urchin, which scientists call "Grey sea urchin " is one of the objects of industrial production, and a year he caught several thousand tons.

According to the specialists sea urchins die hard, and they are quite able to recover their population without outside interference in the form of artificial cultivation.

However, the volume of illegal fishing sometimes so great that at some point the number of individuals can fall below the critical point and the natural recovery of populations becomes impossible.

Sea urchins are the valuable kind of marine biological resources. Commercial interest for commercial fishing is sea urchin caviar.

It is considered to be especially valuable delicacy in Asia, especially in Japan. She is credited with miraculous properties that affect the vitality of the body.

In the Russia there is practically no separation technology of caviar, so sea urchins usually exported to Japan whole and refrigerated.

In Primorye, while relaxing on the shore your friends in the summer certainly invite you to taste the caviar of sea urchin. However here we must do it carefully. Incorrect degustation can hinder you not only from the sea urchins, but also from the all the seafood for ever.