“Signs of sea star wasting syndrome typically begin with white lesions on the arms of the starfish that spread inward, causing the entire animal to disintegrate in less than a week”
I could be wrong, but this is just a symptom of a much larger issue emanating from the far east, slowly but steadily making it’s way to North America
REALLY.... this is some new bizarre disease caused by some
radioactive material from Japan magically concentrating on the west coast when the quintillions of bequerels of radiation the US and others pumped into the Pacific over the course of 20 years of testing DID NOTHING?
BULLSHIITE. Idiots and luddites abound and every last one
of them are convinced THEY are effing experts on radioactivity when none of them could chart the decay
chain of a single isotope if their bleeping life depended on it.
The starfish might be subject to a lot of pollutants and industrial byproducts from manufacturing and agriculture along the west coast that might be the cause but I absoleffinglutely guarantee you it AIN’T NO FRIGGIN RADIATION FROM JAPAN.
I think you are......This is nature's way of population control.
The same phenomenon is occuring on the east coast which just so happened to experience an explosion in the starfish population 3 years ago.
Mammals such rabbits and coons go thru population cycles. It's especially noticeable in coons in areas of high human population and semi-rural habitat. They contract a highly contagious disease similar to canine distemper and you'll see them wandering aimlessly in the daytime.
Back in the mid 90's I witnessed such an outbreak at a local metro-park while golfing. I must have seen 5 coons on the course that day just staggering around.