Unlike caviar, which is the eggs of fish, the roe of the urchin ... Sloan is awed by the milky nothingness he confronts during urchin spawning season, when the sea teems with delicate, transparent ...

Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...