Starfish

A new administrative rule that went into effect Friday prohibits Oregon recreational fishers from taking home sea stars, otherwise known as starfish.

Scientists say starfish populations are recovering from a devastating die-off with help from a massive baby boom.

Scientists have suspected that warmer waters played a role in the mass die-offs of West Coast starfish. Now they have evidence that it does.

Two years after Puget Sound divers noticed that starfish were disappearing, scientists have isolated the cause. But the creatures continue to die.