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1970’s: The heyday <strong>of</strong> COTS research• Worldwide outbreaks <strong>of</strong> A. planci generatedconsiderable public concern• Scientist lobbied for considerable researchfunding, <strong>of</strong>ten expressing highlysensationalist views <strong>of</strong> <strong>starfish</strong> outbreaks• AUS$3.5 million spent on COTS research,directed mostly at futile control effortsBy the late 1970’s A. planci had all butdisappeared and interest quickly faded
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