Red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) can live over 100 years: confirmation with A-bomb [14.sup]carbon. From: Fishery Bulletin | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Marine Fisheries Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) along the west coast of North America, like most large sea urchins in temperate waters worldwide, are the focus of a commercially important fishery. In a review of biological data for purposes of fishery management, the life span of red sea urchins was suggested to be 7-10 years (Sloan, 1986) and they have been included with much shorter-lived species for illustrating complex population dynamics (Hastings and Higgins, 1994). Recent work with tetracycline and calcein tagging (Ebert, 1998; Ebert et al., 1999), however, has shown that ...

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