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Salt, Vol. 12, No. 1, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT. Published by the Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies. “Marim works in Maine’s new booming urchin industry. Pickers like her, divers, and processors rake in the profits.”

Contents

• 3 Nineteen Pine Street The Salt Center is organizing a major photographic retrospective.
• 6 Urchins! Urchin beds on the ledges off Maine’s coastline rival the gold fields of California for making a quick buck. Maine’s newest fishery industry sends a crop to Japan that was worthless seven years ago. Divers, buyers, pickers, and processors pocket the profits.
• 15 Picking Uni for Japan Picking urchin roe, called “uni” in Japan, is hard …