It Came From The 2011 Tsunami: Japanese marine life crossing the Pacific.

Interesting: “The 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan’s coast cast an enormous amount of debris out to sea — way out. Japanese marine life took advantage of the new floating real estate and booked a one-way trip to America. From 2012 to 2017, at least 289 living Japanese marine species washed up on the shores of North America and Hawaii, hitching rides on fishing boats, docks, buoys, crates and other nonbiodegradable objects, a team of U.S. researchers report in the Sept. 29 Science.” And at least one of them — the Northern Pacific seastar — is one of those extremely annoying invasive species.  Maybe we could eat them? Apparently they taste good when steamed, if you’re into that sort of thing.