The Spine crowns of the Swains Reef, Queensland, flooded with starfish (Australian Broadcasting Corporation Photo)
Australian divers beat the record by killing nearly 47,000 spiny starfish a week south of the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
A few months ago, Kunzhou authorities discovered that (Swains Reef), 250 kilometers off the central coast, was being devoured by tens of thousands of sea stars with spiny crowns. Captain Stobo (Bruce Stobo) of Gladstone (Gladstone) is leading 25 divers on a nine-day spines-crowned starfish hunt.
The divers' volunteers revealed that this was probably the largest single trip to kill a crowned sea star on an unofficial record, Stobo said. Similar operations generally kill up to 30, 000 sea stars with spiny crowns.
A survey by the Queensland National Park and Wildlife Service (Queensland Parks and Wildlife) in November last year found a flood of spines on the Swains reef, but divers volunteers did not expect it to be so bad.
One of the divers' volunteers, a number of professional divers who have worked in the north of the Great Barrier Reef, has been full-time killing Acanthophora for eight months, saying it was the place where the most-seen Sagittarius has ever been seen.
The number of sea stars with spiny crowns is so dense that in some areas they have been stacked together to compete with each other for coral reefs. Divers' volunteers kill starfish by injecting them with bile salt, which sounds easy and difficult to operate underwater.
Stobo is pleased that the Australian federal goverment has been able to spend A $60 million to deal with the overrun of the Great Barrier Reef's spiny crowns, and hopes to receive some funding for the reef's southern part.