Fort Pierce - Tuesday March 28, 2023: The results of a new collaborative study show promise in urchin restocking strategies to aid coral reef restoration. “We also learned how these urchins were moving around in different habitat, which will help us develop future strategies to get them to stay in place,” said Pilnick, now a researcher at the UF/IFAS School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (SFFGS) at the Florida Aquarium Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach. Over the next nine months of the study both of them continued to monitor the progress by conducting multiple dives on Rainbow Reef to count the relocated urchins and monitor reef activity