Tropical Zone Gardening: Nature's Underwater Gardens 3, 1 by claypa

claypa wrote:
Found a picture in wikipedia. They'd pay based on the color of the roe. This one looks nice, maybe two dollars a pound at that time. The outside of the urchins there is usually green, but you'd see other colors occasionally, purple or even a white one once. Short spines too, not like in the Caribbean.
A good diver would get a thousand pounds or more in 4 hours, about as long a time as we would stay out. The diver was a real little guy and didn't use much air!