TV: Massacre along West Coast continues — Alarming, bleak situation as disease re-emerges — Hundreds of millions of sea stars estimated dead — Changes in cellular matrix observed, “a lot of interesting genes being found” — Other sea life disappearing as tidepool communities ‘shift’ (VIDEO)

Thursday, September 17, 2015
By Paul Martin

ENENews.com
September 15th, 2015

National Geographic, Sep 15, 2015 (emphasis added): Why Are So Many Starfish Dying? — Sea stars along North America’s west coast have been dying at an alarming rate. A syndrome known as sea star wasting disease causes the animal to lose limbs and eventually disintegrate, leaving behind a pile of white goo…

National Geographic, Sep 15, 2015: The massacre of sea stars along the West Coast continues, although the pace has slowed because so many already have died… Some areas have seen up to a 90 percent decline in their populations… Scientists [are] investigating why this disease… is now rampaging through 19 species of sea stars… In some of the locations hit early on with this wasting disease, [Pete Raimondi, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz] and colleagues are already starting to see a shift in the animal community. In tidepools, where there used to be a mix of organisms including sea stars, scientists are now seeing mussels dominating… in the Pacific Northwest, sea stars have either gotten smaller in body size, or they are big, with few in the mid-size range, says Drew Harvell, a marine ecologist at Cornell University.

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