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North Pacific Seastar population decline?

July 25, 2010 by  
Filed under Featured, Wild Things

The beautiful, but destructive North Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis) first arrived in Port Phillip Bay in the 1990s in ship ballast water. As they eat practically anything live or dead that they can climb onto, they thrived in the local conditions where they have few natural predators. In less than 10 years they became the [...]