The ocean urchin inhabitants is being boosted by a undertaking from the Valencia authorities’s division for farming with the help of the Oceanogràfic marine life centre.
A spokesman mentioned it’s a pilot scheme designed to ‘strengthen the presence of this species’, as populations have been in decline.
Oceanogràfic centre biologists have been working a breeding in captivity programme for the marine animals.
They’ve managed to convey 2,000 of the ocean urchins into the world, which have reached an age of eight months.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca Information
