Green Options » starfish http://greenoptions.com/tag/starfish Posts tagged 'starfish' Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:14:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Starmageddon: Last Days for Starfish? http://ecoscraps.com/2008/03/21/starmageddon-last-days-for-starfish/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/03/21/starmageddon-last-days-for-starfish/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:14:44 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecoscraps.com/2008/03/21/starmageddon-last-days-for-starfish/ Starfish eating a mussel. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user M. Buschmann.)Over the past several weeks, thousands upon thousands of starfish have washed up dead on Britain’s beaches. The cause, as usual, appears to be humans: investigators say the most likely cause is fishing boats that dredge the sea bottom for mussels, either ripping starfish loose and casting them adrift, or suffocating them under mud and sand.

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user M. Buschmann.

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