Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 on Nostr: I was just wondering why I never see starfish in LA tide pools any more -- they were ...

I was just wondering why I never see starfish in LA tide pools any more -- they were everywhere when I was a kid. It turns out that the population was devastated in 2013-4 by sea star wasting syndrome, a poorly understood phenomenon that can basically dissolve a sea star in just a few days.

#LosAngeles #Tidepools #Starfish #SeaStars #MarineBiology #SeaStarWastingSyndrome

https://marine.ucsc.edu/data-products/sea-star-wasting/