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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2015
Council: The adjacent Sea stars: Epidemic is one of the largest
marine disease events throughout the world
neighbor, Seaside
stars migrating and predators
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School District,
picking the animals off.
Sampling results
Volunteers and awareness
Response
agreed to the action
Linked to many sea star
program staff typically survey
city access to a section of
21st Avenue currently occu-
Barrett said after the pied by the Pooles.
death of Bob and Marianne
“I don’t want to give
Poole, family members be- away something that we
gan the process of cleaning might need in 50 years,”
up the property for sale.
Johnson said.
City Attorney Dan Van
Councilor Tita Monte-
Thiel said the city could ro said she thinks the city
grant a license instead of should receive some kind of
passing a street vacation or- compensation before grant-
dinance, but “that probably ing the street vacation.
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“I feel very strongly
buyer’s standpoint.”
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the taxpayers
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of this town
support
and I really
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A public
don’t think we
street may be
want to can just give
vacated
ac-
away the tax-
cording to Or- give away payers’ prop-
egon statute.
erty,” she said.
Before the city something
City Coun-
can grant the
cilor
Randy
that we Frank agreed,
request, how-
ever, it needs to
adding
he
might
obtain the con-
wants to con-
sent of at least need in 50 sider the issue
two-thirds the
from his con-
years.’
owners of all
stituents’ per-
abutting prop-
spective.
— Don
erty.
Public
Johnson
The appli-
Works Direc-
city council president
cation submit-
tor Neal Wal-
ted to the city
lace asked if
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of consent from the Seaside ities under the property. If
School District 10, as the so, the city would need to
Seaside High School campus receive an easement from
surrounds the Poole property the owners.
to the south and east, and
Barrett said he was un-
from Paul and Jackie Do- sure.
chow, who own the tax lot
Van Thiel said granting
north of the Poole property.
this request could have fu-
No other property owners ture impacts. “What will
would be impacted.
you say to the next person?”
he asked. “Be careful. It’s a
Council concerns
policy consideration.”
Before granting the
The council requested a
Pooles’ request, Council utilities study and agreed to
President Don Johnson revisit the draft ordinance
asked if there was a way at their next meeting Sept.
the family could provide the 14.
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three sites every three months
and send their results to MA-
RINe. Researchers look for le-
sions and missing limbs.
In July 2014, HRAP found
41 sea stars at that north boul-
ders site and only 13 were
healthy, showing no signs of
the disease.
When they do contract
wasting syndrome, the sea stars
begin deteriorating in a matter
of days or weeks, Keyser said.
The program’s east boulder
at the Needles site turned out 42
sea stars in July 2015. In 2014,
volunteers found 37 sea stars
and 27 showed signs of the
disease, including a Category 4
with severe tissue deterioration.
Miner said MARINe found
some diseased sea stars, but not
many during a recent resam-
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down from previous years,” she
said.
But results looked different
in Washington.
In June, researchers began
seeing many sick sea stars in
Washington’s intertidal waters
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ing signs of the disease when
they pull sea stars up, Miner
said.
In California, the number of
diseased animals was down in
the spring.
“It’s interesting,” Miner
said. “Different places are do-
ing different things.”
Potential causes
Sea star wasting syndrome
Submitted Photo
A sea star with lesions from sea star wasting syndrome
hangs from a rock in Cannon Beach during spring 2014.
hit the animals hard in Wash-
ington in 2013. Keyser said re-
searchers began seeing a local
impact in 2014.
Miner noted that there is a
correlation with higher ocean
temperatures in some areas, but
not all. A warming ocean may
make the sea stars more suscep-
tible to disease or stress them
out, she added.
While sea star wasting syn-
drome has been attributed to
densovirus, Miner said it’s un-
known if that is the same strain
researchers witnessed in Cali-
fornia before the epidemic.
They haven’t been able to
get good tissue samples, and
emergency research fund-
ing is scarce. Scientists have
ideas about the cause of the
virus, she said, but nothing
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“This is a lot of arm waving
right now,” she said. “We just
don’t know.”
California’s event was tied
to warm water, however, as
researchers saw healthier sea
stars in deeper waters, she add-
ed.
Keyser said wasting diseas-
es have also occurred when sea
stars overpopulate “but never to
this extent.”
The epidemic is one of the
largest marine disease events
worldwide, Miner added. The
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termine when there are also sea
wasting cases, a warming ocean
is hard to stop with man-made
climate change and natural cy-
cles like El Niños, Miner said.
“That’s the trickiest thing,”
she noted, “whether we’ll be
able to change our ways enough
to make a difference.”
Warmer waters have af-
fected other species, such as
seabirds, impacting the entire
ecosystem, Keyser said.
Some studies have sug-
gested the disease is spread
via human touch. Keyser said
more research is needed be-
fore making any conclusions
in Cannon Beach. Researchers
sterilize their equipment and
boats before going out. Miner
suggested visitors and residents
err on the side of caution when
viewing sea stars.
She added that important in-
formation comes from the pub-
lic. She encourages beachgoers
to submit sightings of any sick
sea stars to seastarwasting.org.
As is the case in other
mysterious die-off events,
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more answers before taking
any action.
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Homes
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