Strange afflictions have beset animals on the West Coast since Fukushima. We have had polar bears, walruses and seals with patchy hair loss and oozing sores on their skin.
http://www.reuters.com/...
Now we have sardine and starfish population collapse.
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Scientists say an outbreak of “sea star wasting disease,” an affliction that causes starfish to develop white lesions, lose arms, and eventually disintegrate, is spreading at a rapid rate from Southern California all the way up to Alaska.
The disease has killed off some 95 percent of orange and purple starfish that are commonly found in West Coast tide pool populations, according to the Associated Press.
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Federal fisheries managers have cut projections for West Coast sardine harvests by two-thirds while scientists try to get a better handle on indications the population is entering a significant down cycle.
Are the Fukushima meltdowns to blame for diseased polar bears and dying starfish and sardines?