
Monday, November 18, 2013
There is no mystery to this; next to go will be the abalone, crab and urchin populations; bewildering disease is spreading and “no idea what’s causing it, or how to stop it” — Timelapse shows all legs lost in 7 hours (VIDEOS)
ENERGY NEWS
11/17/2013
The stars lose their legs and, essentially,
disintegrate into blobs. Researchers have no idea what’s causing it, or
how to stop it. The disease, whatever it is, has wiped out sea stars
from the local shoreline, with even the pools at Natural Bridges State
Beach now empty of stars. Similar die-offs have occurred before, but
never this widespread and always during warm-water cycles [...]
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Pacific Starfish, Half Moon Bay California |
It is
afflicting sea stars from Southern California to Alaska, and [...] the
Pacific Ocean being in a cold-water cycle. “Those are two very
bewildering facts,” said Pete Raimondi, who heads UC Santa Cruz’s
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology lab. “[...] what we really don’t
understand is how [they get infected],” Raimondi said. [...] the disease
[...] is now showing up in subtidal zones. [...]
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Legacy of Fukushima: Another dead ocean |
What’s wiping out the starfish in California?
[...] Scientists on the West Coast are at a loss to explain what’s
killing sea stars, also known as starfish. In some places, 95 percent of
the starfish population has died. Marine biologist Pete Raimondi showed
CBS News the tide pools along California’s Monterey Bay. Thousands of
bright sea stars usually line these shores. In less than two months,
they’ve vanished. Raimondi said the mystery of what is happening to the
sea stars is “immense.” “I mean, that’s probably, from a scientific
point of view, one of the most intriguing things,” he said. “We have no
obvious culprit.” [...] The disease is more widespread than ever,
stretching from Alaska to Southern California. [...] “We’ve never seen
it like this, never,” Raimondi said. [...] Scientists say they don’t
know how much worse the die off will get, and that it could be
generations before these shores are once again painted purple and
orange.
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