Japan is still having problems with giant refrigerator-sized jellyfish called the Nomaru. The spread of the Nomaru north is blamed on global warming and warming ocean temperatures. Japan has been having a problem with them since 2005. The AP says a couple enterprising Japanese companies are coming up with different ways to eat the giant creatures. One of the food options is a jellyfish ice cream. That does not sound like a yummy ice cream flavor but consuming the huge pests is one way to reduce their numbers. Take a look:
Massive Jellyfish Swarms are Turning Resorts into Jellytoriums
The National Science Foundation says climate change is allowing jellyfish populations to swell to dangerous numbers. These jellyfish blooms - or swarms - cause big problems from overruning fisheries to ruining resort sites for tourists.
In recent years, massive blooms of stinging jellyfish and jellyfish-like creatures have overrun some of the world's most important fisheries and tourist destinations--even transforming large swaths of them into veritable jellytoriums. The result: injuries (sometimes serious) to water enthusiasts and even occasional deaths.
Here are some more highlights from the study's findings.
1/3 of the total weight of all life in Monterey Bay is from gelatinous animals.
3 minutes after a person is stung by a deadly box jellyfish, s/he may be dead.
8 years after fast-reproducing comb jellies invaded in the Black Sea, they dominated it.
20 to 40 people are killed annually from box jellyfish stings in the Philippines alone.
400 vast Dead Zones in world oceans are too polluted for almost all life except jellyfish.
1,000+ fist-sized comb jellies filled each cubic meter of water in Black Sea jelly blooms.
45,000 eggs may be released daily by a single jellyfish.
500,000 people are stung by jellyfish in the Chesapeake Bay annually.
500 million refrigerator-sized jellyfish float into the Sea of Japan daily during blooms.
In addition to plaguing tourist resorts the article also says these jellyfish swarms have even shut down nuclear reactors.
Jellyfish swarms have also damaged fisheries, fish farms, seabed mining operations, desalination plants and large ships. And proving that jellyfish can be political animals, knots of jellyfish have done the work of anti-nuclear activists: they have disabled nuclear power plants by clogging intake pipes.
The National Science Foundation really does have the headline "Jellyfish Gone Wild!" You can read it here. It's a funny headline but it's really a shame that jellyfish are going wild and ruining resort areas and shutting down nuclear reactors.
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The National Science Foundation says climate change is allowing jellyfish populations to swell to dangerous numbers. These jellyfish blooms - or swarms - cause big problems from overruning fisheries to ruining resort sites for tourists.
For the guy who wants some happening swim trunks, Vilebrequin is the way to go. A boutique in Saint Tropez, Vilebrequin's founder actually invented longer swimtrunks in the 1970s for the congnoscenti who didn't want to wear a speedo on the beaches of the Riviera.
