how has human impact affected starfish?

Answer 1

Oh, wow!
One of my favorite ecology misadventure stories!

This is an old example, having taken place a couple centuries ago, and somewhere in Europe (I think).

Once, the starfish population seemed to be wrecking the fish harvesting trade and so it was implemented that whenever starfish were brought up in nets, sailors would cut them to bits and throw them back overboard! But... what was once a bit of a starfish will regenerate into a whole sartfish if all goes well. And thus did the fishermen unwittingly propagate the starfish population in the area- until somebody figured it out and made them stop. The end.

And the moral of the story is "don't try to destroy something you don't know very much about, just because you don't like it... because you don't know very much about it." Hmm, you could even apply that to modern politics. Oh, well.

You probably wanted information about our impact on starfish from pollution or something. But about that subject I am woefully- if happily- ignorant.

Good luck to you in finding the answers you seek.

Answer 2

Starfish don't have feelings so who cares!

Answer 3

ask a starfish.

Answer 4

pollution, as simple as that.