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Do local Bamfield eelgrass beds have wasting disease?

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Do local Bamfield eelgrass beds have wasting disease?

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This disease is caused by a slime mold called Labyrinthula sp. and led to the nearly catastrophic decline in eelgrass of North Atlantic coasts in 1931 and 1932. Labyrinthula was isolated on eelgrass from around Bamfield.

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