Jellyfish take over the world – or Japan anyway

Yes, these monsters are enormous and often measure 2.2 metres in diameter!
So much so, that in the seas around Japan they have become a serious menace.
No, not to humans – but to shipping! Last year a Japanese trawler overturned when it’s nets caught hundreds of them!
This is the Echizen jellyfish, the monster of the jellyfish world. They believe that as sea temperatures around Japan have gone up 3 fold, faster than anywhere else, this in turn has caused a huge surge in the breeding or our wobbly friends.
If the was an opposite to Sci-Fi, it must be something like Sea-R (sea reality) because the stuff in our oceans is just incredible.
Sadly, no doubt someone will come up with a way to kill the critters before things get too bad – but from my understanding, they already are.

However, someone in Japan will learn a way to eat them – I betcha! lol

Published in: on 30 November, 2009 at 16:20  Comments (4)  
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  1. Sounds fishy to me!! lol

    I’m sure they’d eat them if they could? Or use it as something for medical science?

    Cheers

  2. Yuk! they’re eww! I won’t swim in the sea anywhere near Japan.

  3. There’s definitely somewhere that eats jelly fish. I heard something on the radio about it a couple of months back.

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