Incredible. When does this occur each year?
If they concentrate like this each year in a relatively small area then perhaps a team of dedicated divers could work to remove them and make a fair dent on populations in the local area…..or am I just being completely ignorant of the scale of the problem. I think a continuous effort on some local beaches in the bay has helped reduce the population locally and give some of the local shellfish, crabs, and seastars a chance to recover some numbers.
To see the sheer numbers of these noxious pests in one area at one time is frightening . I agree with pseudechis, in that orgainsed diver clean up days, if and when these aggregations are discovered, could only be beneficial to Port Phillip bay.
The requirement for a permit to remove an introduced noxious pest such as the Northern pacific seastar surely needs to be removed.
Incredible. When does this occur each year?
If they concentrate like this each year in a relatively small area then perhaps a team of dedicated divers could work to remove them and make a fair dent on populations in the local area…..or am I just being completely ignorant of the scale of the problem. I think a continuous effort on some local beaches in the bay has helped reduce the population locally and give some of the local shellfish, crabs, and seastars a chance to recover some numbers.
To see the sheer numbers of these noxious pests in one area at one time is frightening . I agree with pseudechis, in that orgainsed diver clean up days, if and when these aggregations are discovered, could only be beneficial to Port Phillip bay.
The requirement for a permit to remove an introduced noxious pest such as the Northern pacific seastar surely needs to be removed.
i went catching them today in Williamstown. between us, we caught about 30