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Tracking an Invasive Species: Sea Star Collection in Port Phillip Bay

A Saturday morning spent prying Northern Pacific Sea Stars from Port Phillip Bay's reef flats is a small, hands-on lesson in ecological consequence. This diver and his daughter, a soon-to-be marine biologist, were contributing to a grim tally: an estimated 165 million of these predators now call the bay home. Each female can release 20 million eggs, and the species has already devastated native shellfish beds since arriving via ballast water in the late 1980s.