Orange Starfish In Tide Pool Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Cannon Beach, Oregon tide pools at the base of Haystack Rock is ideal location to spot star fish. In 2013 a mass die-off of sea stars was reported off both the east and west coasts of North America. .There has been signs of some recovery of ochre sea star populations Pisaster ochraceus, with higher numbers of juvenile sea stars in the intertidal than had been previously common, especially for northern sites along the Pacific coast[. However, the biomass and the function of ochre sea stars in their communities, such as being important predators of mussels, has remained lower than pre-disease level. This sea star photo is from 2005 when the population was still healthy.