FRIDAY HARBOR, San Juan County Meet the Sunflower Starfish. Right here, within the effervescent tanks of the College of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs, these charismatic orange-and-brown starfish snack on mussels and pile on their brethren. The starfish was as soon as a ubiquitous Salish Sea delight, however a illness referred to as starfish losing syndrome worn out about 99 % of species in Washington after a sequence of marine warmth waves. In the present day, the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposed itemizing the animal as threatened below the federal Endangered Species Act, signaling the dire prospects for the species. However Jason Hodin’s humble Sunflower Star Lab on San Juan…