there's other sea urchins around the world, but they're thriving, too, as the oceans have warmed. >> that's right. as the oceans have warmed, the you are chins seem to be the winners and they are really thriving and taking off, which is bad news for the kelp forest. >> reporter: but to bryant, the c.e.o. of a company called urchinomics -- >> we convert it to seafood products or uni in a matter of six to 12 weeks. we're essentially monetizing the problem species you want to get rid of. >> reporter: sea you are chiurc considered a delicacy. they are working with the marine lab to collect them in the ocean and fatten them up on sea weed pellets, what is an you are chin feed lot. are they going to be delicious themselves for us to eat? >> so far all indications are that they are a very high quality and very delicious. >> reporter: turning a menace

into a meal. >> that's exactly right. >> reporter: these you airchins been fed for two months. >> are you ready to taste it? >> reporter: i'll give it a try. >> start you off small so they don't overwhelm you. >> reporter: it's quite -- it's the ocean. >> yeah, you want to get all in other tissuou >>peepte to sell the urchins loy to chefs looking to try new recipes. the swan oyster depot in san francisco serves sea urchin and welcomes a new supply. >> you always have to have your eyes toward the future and other possibilities. >> reporter: they are running similar projects in die juan, japan, norway and canada, they are all losing kelp forests to urchins. >> these are restorative. the more you eat the better the environment becomes. it's a value proposition from all other seafood we know today. >> reporter: they hope americans can be convinced to eat more

urchins. before the urchins eat up more of the vital part of the ocean environment. for "cbs this morning" saturday, john blackstone,

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memoir and he did. he discussed his life and music with jane poauley. ♪ day is ending >> i don't sit still well. i need something to occupy me if i'm trying to concentrate and get work done or something. >> reporter: before james taylor can kindle the flames of his imagination, you had a knack before. he likes to split kindling for his wood fire and stove in lennox, massachusetts. where did you learn to do that? >> i, too, grew up in the sticks. we had fire as kids. >> reporter: james, i had a suburban childhood. we were girls. we didn't start fires. >> right, right, of course. this is cheating, of course. >> reporter: at 71, james taylor is as busy as ever. ♪ when ripple rose cry

>> if we're recording, we sort of set up in this space behind us. >> reporter: whether it's recording and producing his own albums -- >> you can see our list of songs that are on american standards' album. there was something about the actual thing of having an echo chamber. >> reporter: or building his own echo chamber. >> here's the key, i think. >> reporter: from an old shipping container. ♪ oklahoma where the -- >> hello? >> reporter: another project, a deep dive into the wellsprings of his own creativity. ♪ in my mind i'm gone to carolina ♪ >> before long my folks bought land on morgan creek. >> reporter: a memoir out on audible about his early days and growing up in north carolina with his parents and four siblings. >> we were kind of isolated out there. as kids we seemed to have hours

of empty time. a fantasy could last all afternoon. i don't think i would have become a song writer if i had not had all of those free days to let my imagination roam. >> reporter: james taylor was 19 when he wrote "carolina in my mind." during a trip to spain where he met a girl named karen. >> as the sun came up, the first verse came to me. ♪ karen sees the silver sun >> karen sees the silver sun, walk away and watch it shine. watch her watch the morning come. >> reporter: did you say, karen, do you like that song? >> i may well. >> reporter: the memoir is called "break shot." >> a lot of pool ball games start with a break shot. you just smack that triangle of balls and they go off in all different directions. but what that refers to is that there was a moment in my life

and my family's life and in the popular culture and we just jumped the tracks all at once. >> reporter: what happened? >> you know, my father's alcoholism i think reached a peak, and that happened, you know, that led to my folks breaking up. and i was i think a very sensitive kid and was away at school, deeply unhappy. so i left school and went to a psychiatric hospital in boston called mclane and spent ten months there. >> reporter: a turbulent time for a very young james taylor, but a remarkably creative one. pain and longing finding its way into his songs. ♪ just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone ♪

>> reporter: before he was 22 heed been signed by the beatles for their brand-new label apple. ♪ i've seen fire and i've seen rain ♪ >> reporter: and his second song, "fire and rain." ♪ here's a young cowboy lives on the range ♪ >> reporter: and sweet baby james landed him on the cover of time magazine. >> that's a song i'm proud of, but i think it came out really well and i worked hard on it. >> reporter: how old were you? >> i guess i was 20. ♪ good night, you moonlight ladies ♪ rock abi sweet baby james ♪ ♪ >> both verses were written behind the wheel of an automobile, in the first case driving south to see my family in north carolina, and to see my, my older brother's baby named after me, little baby james. and then the second half was

written driving on the turnpike from stock bridge to boston. >> reporter: there's the matter of the drug thing. >> sure. >> reporter: and i'm a little concerned you were on the road driving to north carolina and you probably shouldn't have been driving. >> i know, that's probably true. i mean, i probably shouldn't have been driving. >> reporter: well, but you survived it. you survived it all. >> i never saw certainly being this age and still doing what i do at this age. that's remarkable, too. ♪ very clear, my love, so near, my love ♪ >> reporter: life these days is pretty sweet for james taylor. his two oldest children, ben and sally, are established musicians. >> yesterday to pick out a christmas tree. >> reporter: his twins, ruff us and henry, who were 6 when sunday morning last visited with the taylors and nowr nearly two.

♪ when i take you out tonight with me ♪ >> reporter: kim makes a cameo appearance on another musical venture in progress. ♪ now would you say that it was made of silk ♪ >> i corralled her to sing with fringe on top. >> reporter: does she sing that? are they really -- that's her? >> that's kim. >> reporter: she's really good. >> she is really good. ♪ has it really got a team of snow white horses ♪ >> she did that, just knocked it off in an afternoon, too. ♪ god bless the child -- >> reporter: the new album is called "american standard" a collection of songs he grew up with, and still loves. ♪ as easy as rolling off -- >> these are songs i've known

since i was a kid, all of them. i used to listen to my parents' record collection, just endlessly. you'd lie on the floor usually on a carpet, look out the window, and you'd look at the album cover and read about, you know, read it through a couple of times, but then just gaze at the art and listen to the music. >> reporter: that's how it got imprinted, it's permanently engraved. >> really is. >> reporter: and now his songs are permanently engraved on our imaginations. ♪ this love is stuck has got me in a fog ♪ >> reporter: this spring he'll be out on tour again. a trubadore who still loves what he does. ♪ it's so easy to fall in love with you ♪ >> it's undeniably revitalizing to have the audience react to a song that they came to hear, you

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adriana diaz stopped in. >> how are you doing today? >> reporter: the owner and pastor greets everyone. but it's the helping hand he extends to his employees that's his real mission. many have done jail time. >> we have to quit looking at everybody as a problem, and we've got to look at a solution. >> reporter: you're a pastor. you usually preach at church. >> yeah. >> reporter: but it sounds like you brought church -- >> brought church through the cheese steak. >> reporter: these are his latest converts. teenage brothers sean, rodney and d.j. who we first encountered when they were throwing bottles at cars from a nearby balcony. >> i felt i had enough. i used that method, throwing the hands up trying to tell them, listen, i just want to talk to you. will you come down? >> reporter: you guys thought you were in trouble. >> yeah. i thought he was going to call the police. he gave us a long, long, long speech. >> reporter: he told them he was no saint either. he dealt drugs and was homeless until prayer and a stranger's kindness changed his life.

he never did end up calling the cops. instead -- >> i sai i'm going to giveou a chance, teach you how to cook, give you a job. let them fries get good and done, though. >> reporter: now most of the boy's free time is spent here under washington's mentorship. >> i just feel like he gave us a better choice to make money because some people are selling drugs, stuffer like that. i guess he don't want to see us take the same route he took. >> reporter: mission accomplished. adriana diaz, louisville, kentucky. >> bringing church through the cheese ste got to say that's a new one. and that's the overnight news fors wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for the morning news and you don't want to miss "cbs this morning." for the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm tom hanson.

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