Flooding of starfish is a curse.

1, detailed events:

In March 2021, Shandong Qingdao, near Jiaozhou Bay, starfish is very flooded, in a week's time, nearby fishermen have caught 450,000 pounds of starfish. The number of starfish this year is obviously much higher than in previous years, and the number is now increasing. A large number of fishing starfish, reducing the price of starfish, the current market has been sold 4 yuan a pound. Such a cheap price has brought a lot of benefits to the majority of eaters. But the local farmers think that a large number of starfish has brought losses to everyone, and have called for suffering. Because, although the starfish looks soft and lovely, but it is a very fierce carnivorous animals, mainly invertebrates for food, sea cucumbers, clams, oysters and so on are its target. The starfish flooded the waters of Jiaozhou Bay in Qingdao, feeding on bottom-seeded oyster shells and clams in large quantities, causing huge economic losses to fishermen. Therefore, local fishermen have adopted artificial collection and other methods to speed up the catching and killing of starfish.

2, starfish called ? Locusts in the sea? , can cause serious damage to the ecological environment.

Starfish are echinoderms, along with sea cucumbers and sea urchins. Starfish can use tube feet to catch prey, but also to allow themselves to climb the rocky reef. Starfish have the habit of gathering to the area where food is gathered, very much like land locusts, starfish are called locusts in the sea. Starfish in the sea mainly prey on shellfish, sea urchins, oysters and sea anemones and other underwater creatures is a very fierce carnivore. Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong Province, as a sea shellfish farming area, provides abundant food for starfish, so it is said that starfish are like locusts gathered here. After investigation, most starfish outbreaks are in farming areas.

3. Starfish have few natural enemies.

The natural enemies of the starfish are seagulls and water rase, starfish into adulthood, the sea can not kill, his natural enemies are very few. Starfish reproduction ability is particularly strong, the survival rate and high, natural enemies are still few, so that conditions allow, starfish will be a large number of reproduction. So although the starfish looks cute, but for farmers, the starfish is the offshore aquaculture disaster. Some experts say: starfish predation shellfish, and not eat a open one, it is likely to be killed ten only eat two; prevention and control is also very difficult, there is no good method, once the starfish gathered to the high-density breeding areas, cleanup is very difficult.

In addition to taking artificial salvage, there is no better way to quickly clean up these starfish . In response to a netizen who suggested ? Let eaters to eliminate starfish? , experts reminded that the starfish that people usually eat is actually its reproductive glands, which contain slight toxicity. Some people will have a crunchy feeling in their mouths after eating it, so it is recommended to eat less of it. I hope that the starfish in Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao, can be quickly brought under control, as far as possible to minimize the farmers' losses.