Sea Star Wasting Disease
Photos of recent sea star (commonly called Starfish) mortality due to Seastar Wasting Disease (aka Sea star Wasting Syndrome) in Puget Sound Washington, Howe Sound BC, and other areas. Please note photographers are listed on each photograph, and photos are ©2013 by the individual photographer, and may not be used without permission.
Report your observations to the Vancouver Aquarium and/or UC Santa Cruz:
http://www.vanaqua.org/act/research/sea-stars
http://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea-star-wasting/index.html#track-disease
Read MoreReport your observations to the Vancouver Aquarium and/or UC Santa Cruz:
http://www.vanaqua.org/act/research/sea-stars
http://www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea-star-wasting/index.html#track-disease
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After week of freezing which kept me out of water, (yes, I am getting old ), I returned to check on stars at Coupeville.
Visibility is terrible, but I managed to survey some area where the most of the Mottled stars reside. I did not see any mass die-off,
just few individuals, however, I noticed this time, that about dozen of the Evasterias were showing "bumps" on their arms, something I didn't notice before anywhere where I encountered them. I might mentioned that couple of "normal" shaped Evasterias were spawning , as was one lonely Plumose anemone.
Could you enlighten me on these bodybuilding individuals ?
Art/Photo ©2014 by Jan Kocian.
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