Abalone Aquaculture and Sea Urchin Uni Sustainable Seafood, A California Abalone Farm Tour

#agriculture;UC Davis Aquaculture drove down to Southern California to bring you an epic Abalone farm tour of The Cultured Abalone Farm on the Santa Barbara coastline. This abalone farm not only produces a low trophic aquaculture species such as abalone, but also does seaweed farming and purple sea urchin ranching by fattening up sea urchins harvest by professional divers from urchin barrens and fattening them up for sea urchin uni!!!! Red Abalone are the largest of California's giant sea snails. You can think of them as the cows of our coastal pacific ocean. Cultured abalone is one of the last land based abalone farms. Follow the video and learn how abalone is made. Starting in the abalone hatchery we can watch spawning abalone and collecting eggs and sperm, then follow the abalone out into the nursery where they are fed seaweeds and kelp. We then can watch harvesting abalone and then weighed before going to market. It is difficult to find a more sustainable aquaculture or sustainable seafood species than abalone in the California Aquaculture Industry. To learn more about Cultured Abalone Farms and Abalone Aquaculture and Abalone recipes or to enquire about seaweed or urchin Uni you can check out their website: https://culturedabalone.com/ #abalone, #aquaculture, #uni, #urchin, #farming, #spawning, #seaweed, #ucdavis aquaculture.ucdavis.edu 0:00 California abalone farm tour 0:10 Giant sea snail 0:45 Abalone hatchery 0:57 Spawning abalone 1:39 Abalone nursery 2:44 Harvesting abalone 3:17 Purple sea urchin 3:43 Urchin barrens 4:21 Seaweed farm 4:41 Sea urchin Uni