Coral-killing starfish curbed by fishing ban

lavrock submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (environment.newscientist.com)

IF YOU want to save coral reefs from rapacious starfish, you should ban fishing.

The crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci, preys on corals in some of the most biodiverse and threatened reefs in the world, dwarfing coral losses from storms and bleaching. The predator is less devastating in "no-take zones" of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, however, where fishing has been banned since 1989 (Current Biology, vol 18, p R598)

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