A. Species
Scientific name: Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Common name(s): Green sea urchin
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status:
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Arctic Sea
Country/Region: Russia/ Barents Sea
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: Sub-national / Sub-region / Sub-State
Name/Details of location: Murmansk Region
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 1980
End Year: 2020
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat, Wild species sourced from the wild but reared/cultivated in a managed site and Wild species born/bred and raised/produced in captivity or through artificial propagation
Type of use: Extractive
Practice of use: Targeted fishing harvesting/exploiting or collecting wild aquatic resources
Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal
Does this use involve take/extraction of: Only parts or products of the organism
Purpose(s) of end use: Food and feed, Medicine and hygiene and Conservation Management
Motivation of use: Largescale commercial exploitation for trade and Population/Area Management
Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: National / local private sector and International private sector
G. Information about the sustainability of use
Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat, Wild species sourced from the wild but reared/cultivated in a managed site and Wild species born/bred and raised/produced in captivity or through artificial propagation
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: authors opinion based on literature review
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Authors state: "Considerable success in aquaculture of marine animals including sea urchins living in the Barents Sea was achieved in Norway. Norwegian specialists are developing techniques for gonad enhancement of wild urchins using formulated feed and pursuing a strategy of full domestication, with the explicit goal of bringing the entire production cycle of sea urchins under controlled conditions."
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable
Details of assessment carried out: this study
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Authors state: "The coast of the Kola Peninsula has a good potential for the development of the green sea urchin farming but several financial, socio‐economic, logistic and management problems must be solved before this process starts."
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered unsustainable
Details of assessment carried out: this study
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Authors state: "The coast of the Kola Peninsula has a good potential for the development of the green sea urchin farming but several financial, socio‐economic, logistic and management problems must be solved before this process starts."
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
Authors state: "the difficult modern financial climate in Russia together with poor transport infrastructure and a poor legal framework in aquaculture management impede the development of sea urchin farming in the Murmansk Region.Russian scientists and local businessmen are interested in developing the technologies for sea urchin aquaculture in the Barents Sea region but they have no adequate funding to do so. New investors such as large national oil and gas holdings need to be involved in resolving this problem. A political solution of the Russian Government is necessary to incorporate major players in this industry."
Record source
Information about the record source: scientific_pub
Date of publication/issue/production: 2020-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2022-12-30