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We hung these envelopes in a 300,000 gallon mesocosm at CCAR.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"808\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-808\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1.jpg\" alt=\"urchin nursery \" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1.jpg 575w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1-210x157.jpg 210w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1-317x238.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/cooperative-aquaculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/03\/urchin-nursery-1-423x317.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,575px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo Chris Hill (left), Larry Harris (at rear), Steve Eddy (front) and Jim Wadsworth are stocking the tiny (pinhead) sea urchins into the plastic mesh envelopes ready to place in the large tank behind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this project we teamed up with Prof Larry Harris at the University of New Hampshire, Chris Hill (who runs an urchin hatchery at Portsmouth Scuba, NH) and Jim Wadsworth of Friendship International to test a method of growing juvenile sea urchins through the nursery phase before outplanting to lease sites. 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