Thousands of starfish wash up dead on popular UK beach after heavy storm

Thousands of starfish wash up dead on popular UK beach after heavy storm

We’ve got a mass stranding of starfish take a look at this all the way along absolutely thousands of starfish and this does happen starfish do get stranded like this in in Mass numbers and it’s literally always after we’ve had Stormy Weather and rough Seas so eader mines are very vulnerable um to

Salinity and as well so if a lot of fresh water enters the ocean it can affect them too and it’s going to be the rough weather that washed this this lot up um not so much changeing temperature just the the all these creatures live on the seabed so in the shallows there’ll be

Other things in here as well washing up let’s see what we can find here we go we got a uh a spider crab here a spider crab as well

A large stranding of marine life washed up on a shore in England following rainy weather on Wednesday, February 28, footage shows.

Footage filmed by wildlife conservationist and blogger Nik Mitchell/Get Wild shows a mass stranding of starfish, crabs, whelks, and sea urchins washed up on the shore of Ramsgate Beach.

“Starfish do get stranded like this in mass numbers and it’s literally always after we’ve had stormy weather and rough seas,” Mitchell said. “All these creatures that are on the shallow seabed are the ones vulnerable to the rough weather.”

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