Catching up on this since I’m back from vacation.
A couple of years ago, divers in Puget Sound began to notice something odd: Starfish were disappearing. The sea creatures would get sores and then melt into piles of mush. Sea star wasting syndrome is a gruesome disease and it spread to starfish all along the West Coast. Scientists still don’t know a lot about it. Katie Campbell, a reporter for EarthFix and KCTS9, says that although scientists have isolated the cause, the creatures continue to die. Katie Campbell and Isolde Raftery report. (EarthFix)
http://www.opb.org/news/article/starfish-are-still-disappearing-from-northwest-waters/
Filed under: Puget Sound | Tagged: starfish |
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