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 … [Read more...]
Seastar survival strategy
Curiously, the Magnificent Biscuit Seastar Tosia magnifica is reported as relatively common in waters up to 5m in Victoria and Tassie, but is only found in deep water (to 200m) in South Australia. Just one more of those marine mysteries! But it may … [Read more...]
