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It pollutes the water with the hard shell and all that.

The main reason why oyster fishermen should not chop up a starfish is because all the chopped up pieces of starfish will each grow into another starfish. So when the oyster fishermen think they killed a starfish, they really made new ones which will eat and kill the oyster crop (the two main predators of oysters are humans and starfish).

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Sea stars can regenerate; so if you broke a sea star into two parts both parts would regenerate into two new sea stars. Thus you would greatly increase the problem rather than fixing it.

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Q: Why is it unwise for oyster fishermen to chop upa starfish and throw the pieces back?
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