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Bear would be proud surely
Japanese Fight Giant Jellyfish Invasion With Jellyfish-Infused Space Candy | Fast Company
Bear would be proud surely
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
wow look at the jelyfish
So they do Jellyfish candies scientifically but no whale science to brag about.....
Be careful what you wish for, the Japanese tend to do things slightly differently........
Japan 'cross-breeding cows with whales' | News.com.au
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
dude wtf. That's so weird
seacows!
Well I spose it is easier to harpoon em in a paddock...wagu blubber - more of a fat mableisation of the meat..
Jellyfish scourge threatens Israeli swimmers - and electricity
Jellyfish cover the floor in a lot at Israel Electric Corp.'s Orot Rabin power station on the Mediterranean coast near the central town of Hadera on Tuesday.
During the hot summer months, Israel has always been synonymous with beautiful sandy beaches and swimming in the warm salty waters of the Mediterranean Sea – but not anymore.
It's now a common sight to see scores of dead, gray jellyfish covering the beaches’ white sand while kids poke them with sticks. It's even more common to see bathers running away from the water with big red sting marks.
More than 200 million jellyfish, known here as “Meduzot,” have been attacking Israel, and there is not much anyone can do about it. The jellyfish are an invasive species called Rhopilema Nomadica that originally migrated from the Red Sea.
They're coming here for one reason: They have few natural enemies lurking in these waters. The sea turtle is one such enemy, but massive construction along the Israeli coastline has devastated the turtle nesting habitat, leaving a paradise for the jellyfish.
Dr. Ron Angel, who works at the Department of Maritime Civilization at the University of Haifa, says the problem of jellyfish is only increasing. "People bathing get stung, and for the fishermen it's a disaster, they catch them in their nets. And of course the electric plants suffer as well.”
Seawater is used to cool the turbines that supply most of the electricity in Israel.
"When we suck the water, we also suck the jellyfish,” explained Rafi Nagar, the chief maintenance officer at the Israel Electric Corp. near the town of Hadera. “And if we let them go through the filters, they can cause the plant to shut down, leaving millions of Israelis without electricity.”
Nagar has been working 24/7 to combat the enormous number of jellyfish.
"It's a very difficult problem," he said. "In the last three days, we pulled out 100 tons of jellyfish from our filters."
Nagar's crew has been nicknamed the “Jellyfish Busters.” They wear special goggles, rubber gloves and long-sleeve shirts and pants to help them protect themselves from the stings. They use long poking iron sticks to pull the jellyfish off of the filters, piling them into huge canisters. Nagar says that in his 33 years at the electric company he has never seen anything quite like this.
World Blog - Jellyfish scourge threatens Israeli swimmers - and electricityWorkers from the Israel Electric Corp. stand next to containers filled with jellyfish at the Orot Rabin power station on the Mediterranean coast near the town of Hadera on Tuesday.
Alon Levi, a veterinarian who volunteers at the Israel Marine Mammal research center, said sailing in the Mediterranean last weekend was like "sailing in a soup of jellyfish.” But it’s not just difficult for swimmers and sailors; the explosion of the jellyfish population affects the larger eco-system.
“It's very sad since they eat small crabs and fish," said Levi.
Angel says we need much more information and research on the life of the jellyfish in order to find ways to cope with them.
One thing we know is that every female jellyfish lays 300,000 eggs – making it an almost impossible battle.
Space caramel made from giant jellyfish ~ Pink TentacleJellyfish, Chicken and Cucumber Salad Recipe
(Dua Leo Tron Voi Sua Va Thit Ga)
Ingredients : Serves 4
Method :
Make the Nuoc Cham sauce by mixing the chilies, garlic and sugar and pounding.
Squeeze the lime over the mixture.
Add the Nuoc Mam sauce and water and stir thoroughly. Set aside.
Soak the jellyfish in hot water for about 30 minutes. Remove and soak in cold water for 2 hours, squeezing constantly to remove the salt.
Mix together the jellyfish, chicken and cucumber.
Add the mint and coriander. Add the dressing and toss.
Sprinkle with the crushed peanuts.
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Are jellyfish a harbinger of dying seas? | HeraldTribune.comJellyfish, common in the seas for eons, suck up so much food -- and give back so little -- that a dramatic population increase would gravely threaten the future of oceans worldwide, according to a new study.
Jellyfish could send once-productive seas, including the Gulf of Mexico, back to a more primitive state, if theories pointing to striking increases in the gelatinous creatures prove true.
They assault the base of the food chain, creating conditions where little can survive but jellyfish and bacteria, new scientific findings published this month reveal.
Scientists had already considered jellyfish a biological dead-end for their voracious appetites and low taste appeal to other animals. The creatures, renowned for their irritating sting, remove more food energy from the seas than they put in, pushing the oceans into an altered state that is much more hostile to other life.
The findings are a cause for concern because reports of jellyfish blooms are increasing, leading many scientists to speculate that water pollution, global warming and overfishing may be tipping the scales toward conditions more favorable for jellyfish.
Until now, jellyfish were considered little more than a nuisance. But Robert Condon, lead author of the new jellyfish study and faculty research scientist at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, said their impact on the food web is serious and should be considered in regulating struggling fish populations.
Condon's findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have other ominous implications. Jellyfish thrive in low-oxygen waters where most other species perish, raising concern that the northern Gulf could see a jellyfish spike this year. Scientists are predicting a larger-than-ever dead zone in the area, following a glut of pollution-laden floodwaters from the Mississippi.
The system has already sustained damage from last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A large jellyfish bloom could further damage a system that supports most of the nation's domestic seafood catch.
Stiff competition
Jellyfish gobble the most valuable food source in the ocean: plankton, made up of microscopic plants and animals. In return, they release a sugary goo that only bacteria consume.
When feasting on the goo, bacteria grow more slowly and convert most of the food energy into carbon dioxide, taking "the food web back to square one," said Condon. The blow to the food web is temporary, but hurts fish because they need larger prey than bacteria.
Jellyfish compete with grazing fish, such as sardines, and fish larvae for the same food: microscopic shrimp, crabs and other small creatures.
When fish eat that food, they, in turn, become food for larger fish and marine mammals, such as dolphins. Jellyfish offer less to the food chain because most creatures do not like to eat them. Those that do, such as loggerhead sea turtles, are in decline.
They knock the system further out of whack by providing food to bacteria that nourish single-cell critters that fish don't favor. The jellyfish, however, eat them up, repeating a closed food cycle that shuts out fish, shrimp and other more substantial species.
The cycle traps the food web in a primitive state, one that some researchers compare to the ocean that existed more than 550 million years ago, before more complicated animals evolved.
Cool temperatures, stormy weather and other environmental influences eventually break the jellyfish cycle, allowing the ocean to return to its normal state.
However, several studies in the past decade have cautioned that nutrient pollution, dead zones, overfishing, artificial seawall structures and warmer oceans are all making life easier for jellyfish at the expense of other fish.
"All these things individually can potentially lead to more jellyfish, and then we add them all together," said Monty Graham, one of several co-authors of the study and senior marine scientist at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. "We're very good at messing up the sea and we don't just do in one dimension -- we mess the sea up multi-dimensionally."
Science is inconclusive about whether blooms of jellyfish are increasing globally, Graham said, but people are altering the environment in ways that would support more blooms in the future.
Life in the dead zone
Jellyfish aren't actually fish. They are simple marine creatures that live roughly half their lives in a floating medusa stage. The other half is spent as polyps on the sea bottom, usually on hard surfaces. Jellyfish often bear barbed tentacles that inject a stinging poison into whatever they contact.
Unlike most other animals, jellyfish can survive, and reproduce, in oxygen-starved waters, such as those that form each year along the northern Gulf coast, giving them a big advantage as so-called dead zones expand globally.
More than 400 dead zones form yearly around the world, with the one in the Gulf the second-largest. Since 1985, the Gulf dead zone has spanned an average of about 5,200 square miles each July, according to a report issued last week. Scientists with Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium predicted that it would grow to more than 9,000 square miles this year, the largest ever.
Most animals cannot survive in such low-oxygen conditions. They swim away or perish. Jellyfish, however, don't mind the hostile environment.
Jellyfish taking over a dead zone is probably beneficial, to a point, "by being able to take excess nutrients out of the system," Graham said.
What happens in the northern Gulf affects fishermen here, said Glen Brooks, who runs a commercial fishing fleet out of Cortez. He was preparing to send a ship to Texas last Thursday and another off Alabama's shore, uncomfortably close to the dead zone.
"In the years past we've been OK because we're in deep enough water. I don't know what it's going to be like up there this year," Brooks said.
Although the Gulf of Mexico is a large body of water, damage to parts of the system can also affect the whole.
Ocean currents and winds occasionally transport water and nutrients, as well as red tide and jellyfish, from the northern Gulf to the waters off Southwest Florida. That was the likely scenario when an unusual bloom of sea nettles appeared just offshore here last October, Graham said at the time, noting a conspicuous absence of nettles that year in the northern Gulf.
Frequent jellyfish blooms are a sentinel of a degraded ecosystem, Graham said. And Condon's report suggests that tipping the scales toward jellyfish would harm not only the tourism along affected beaches, but also the commercial and recreational fishing industries.
"It's not the jellyfish's fault. It's our fault," Graham said. "We might be actually doing things to the ocean that allow the jellyfish to propagate."
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Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Have jellyfish come to rule the waves? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.ukLast year I began to wonder, this year doubt is seeping away, to be replaced with a rising fear. Could it really have happened? Could the fishing industry have achieved the remarkable feat of destroying the last great stock?
Until 2010, mackerel were the one reliable catch in Cardigan Bay in west Wales. Though I took to the water dozens of times, there wasn't a day in 2008 or 2009 when I failed to take 10 or more. Once every three or four trips I would hit a major shoal, and bring in 100 or 200 fish: enough, across the season, to fill the freezer and supply much of our protein for the year. Those were thrilling moments: pulling up strings of fish amid whirling flocks of shearwaters, gannets pluming into the water beside my kayak, dolphins breaching and blowing. It was, or so it seemed, the most sustainable of all the easy means of harvesting animal protein.
Even those days were nothing by comparison to what the older residents remembered: weeks on end when the sea was so thick with fish that you could fill a bucket with mackerel just by picking them off the sand, as they flung themselves through and beyond the breaking waves while pursuing their prey.
Last year it all changed. From the end of May to the end of October I scoured the bay, on one occasion paddling six or seven miles from land – the furthest I've ever been – to try to find the fish. With the exception of a day on which I caught 20, I brought them back in ones or twos, if at all. There were many days on which I caught nothing at all.
There were as many explanations as there were fishermen: the dolphins had driven them away, the north-westerlies had broken up the shoals, a monstrous fishmeal ship was stationed in the Irish Sea, hoovering up 500 tonnes a day with a fiendish new vacuum device. (Despite a wealth of detail on this story I soon discovered that no such ship existed. But that's fishermen for you).
I spoke to a number of fisheries officials and scientists, and was shocked to discover that not only did they have no explanation, they had no data either.
So I hoped for the best – that the dearth could be explained by a fluctuation of weather or ecology. When the fish failed to arrive at the end of May I told myself they must be on their way. They had, after all, been showing off the south-west of England – it could be only a matter of time. I held off until last weekend.
The conditions were perfect. There was no wind, no swell, and the best water visibility I've ever seen here. I looked at the sea and thought "today's the day when it all comes right."
I pushed my kayak off the beach and felt that delightful sensation of gliding away from land almost effortlessly – I'm so used to fighting the westerlies and the waves they whip up in these shallow seas that on this occasion I seemed almost to be drifting towards the horizon. Far below me I could see the luminous feathers I used as bait tripping over the seabed.
But I could also see something else. Jellyfish. Unimaginable numbers of them. Not the transparent cocktail umbrellas I was used to, but solid, white rubbery creatures the size of footballs. They roiled in the surface or loomed, vast and pale, in the depths. There was scarcely a cubic metre of water without one.
Apart from that – nothing. It wasn't until I reached a buoy three miles from the shore that I felt the urgent tap of a fish, and brought up a single, juvenile mackerel. Otherwise, though I paddled to all the likely spots, I detected nothing but the jellyfish rubbing against the line. As I returned to shore I hooked a greater weever – which thrashed around the boat, trying to impale me on its poisonous spines. But that was all.
Is this the moment? Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology here? If so, the shift might not be confined to Cardigan Bay. In a perfect conjunction of two of my recent interests, last week a monstrous swarm of jellyfish succeeded where Greenpeace has failed, and shut down both reactors at the Torness nuclear power station in Scotland.
The Israeli branch of Jellyfish Action pulled off a similar feat at the nuclear power station in Hadera this week.
A combination of overfishing and ocean acidification (caused by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere) has created the perfect conditions for this shift from a system dominated by fish to a system dominated by jellyfish.
If this is indeed what we're seeing, the end of vertebrate ecology is a direct result of the end of vertebrate politics: the utter spinelessness of the people charged with protecting the life of the seas. In 2009 the Spanish fleet, for example, vastly exceeded its quota, netting twice the allowable catch of mackerel in the Cantabrian Sea, and no one stopped them until it was too late.
Last week, the European commission again failed to take action against the unilateral decision by Iceland and the Faroes to award themselves a mackerel quota several times larger than the one they agreed to, under their trilateral agreement with the EU and Norway. Iceland and the Faroes have given two fingers to the other nations, and we appear to be incapable of responding.
The mackerel haven't yet disappeared from everywhere, but my guess is that the shoals which, since time immemorial, came into Cardigan Bay, were a spillover from the mass movements up the Irish Sea. As the population falls, there's less competitive pressure pushing them towards the margins. Without data, guesswork is all we've got.
I desperately hope it's not the case, but it could be that the fish that travelled to this coast, in such numbers that it seemed they could never collapse, have gone.
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Jellyfish set to invade Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea coast - Environment - Louth LeaderJellyfish set to invade Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea coast
Colourful sights could be on the cards for seaside goers this summer as swarms of jellyfish look set to hit our shores.
The Marine Conservation Society (MSC) has confirmed that barrel, moon, compass, blue and lion’s mane jellyfish are likely to be setting up camp around the UK including the coast of Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea as their presence in the UK’s ever-warming seas increases.
The recent shut down of the Torness nuclear power station at Dunbar on Scotland’s east coast was caused by jellyfish blocking the water intake systems. And the MCS is now urging beachgoers to record their sightings so they can build up a new picture of the UK jellyfish population.
Jellyfish are the main food source of the endangered leatherback turtles, seasonal visitors to the increasingly warm UK seas. The MCS is hoping, through the new survey, to better understand our new inhabitants.
“The jellyfish survey is an excellent way for people to get involved in finding out more about our threatened seas. There is strong evidence that jellyfish numbers are increasing around the world, including UK seas,” explained Peter Richardson of the MCS.
Since May we have received reports of large numbers of several other species of jellyfish from various coastal all sites round the UK – it is another good year for the jellyfish!”
ELDC spokesman James Gilbert said: “Mablethorpe and the wider East Lindsey coast is the place to be this summer with lots of exciting events and activities for people to enjoy. Millions of people visit our area each year because they recognise the quality of our resorts, including the beaches, and now jellyfish do too.”
To record a sighting, visit www.msuk.org.
l Have you seen a jellyfish? Send your pictures to us by email to sam.kinnaird@jpress.co.uk.
The invasion begins!
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
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Immortal jellyfish is one of the most unique animals in the entire animal kingdom. It may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. It is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it mates after becoming sexually mature. This jelly is technically known as a hydrozoan and is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self. Immortal jellyfish comes from the Caribbean. But, they have spread throughour the world. Immortal jellyfish are found in temperate to tropical regions in all of the world's oceans. It is believed to be spreading across the world as ships are discharging ballast water in ports. Since the species is immortal, the number of individuals is extremely increasing. Dr. Maria Miglietta from Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute scientist assumes that we are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.
Life of Immortal Jellyfish | Life of Sea
The Terrifying Truth About Jellyfish | Environmental GraffitiIt turns out that jellyfish are more complex than was previously thought. They do in fact possess the genes that program for a front-to-back axis, they simply don't utilize them. Either that, or these genes are being used to specialize their brains in some incredibly subtle way. This may mean that cnidarians (the group that includes jellyfish) are in fact descended from more complex, bilateral animals, and secondarily adopted their simpler shape! So while a common ancestor of cnidarians did plug the link between sponges and bilaterans (and there are ideas about what that animal may have been), the cnidarians themselves have continued to evolve until they became the jellyfish we know today.
For us humans, the most unsettling part is that these genes are the same as those present in all vertebrates. So some of the 'advances' usually attributed to vertebrate body form may in fact be much older...
However these findings are interpreted, we can no longer accept that cnidarians are an evolutionary relic. They are in fact highly evolved to take advantage of their habitat and the 'higher' animals within it, as their ability to kill all kinds of vertebrates (including humans) demonstrates. Soft-bodied animals don't leave fossils easily, and their exact phylogeny is always controversial. The terrifying truth about jellyfish is that they mess up our established ideas about evolution, and show us how much we have left to learn.
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Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
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Tens of Millions of Jellyfish Invade NJ's Barnegat Bay | NBC New YorkThey call it the invasion of the jellyfish, and it's estimated that tens of millions of the stinging creatures that have found a home in New Jersey's largest estuary, Barnegat Bay.
Swimming becomes impossible at times, and some homeowners even say they've lost rentals because of the infestation.
"You don't feel it right away, but then it comes in and it's like a pulsing," said Audrey Hertsberg, a high school student in Montclair, N.J., who has been stung and is working down the shore with scientists from Montclair State University.
The first surge in jellyfish, or sea nettles, as they're more commonly called, was noticed five or six years ago.
Since then, it has been like a series of tsunamis continually pounding the most popular swimming and boating waters in this crowded state.
"Female sea nettles, when they mature, supposedly can put out 40,000 eggs per day," said Jack Gaynor, a Montclair State University biologist who is part of a research team studying what has become a first-class pest.
But Gaynor went on to describe how the jellyfish polyps can then turn asexual; each one can reproduce by the dozens.
From that, he offered an estimate of tens of millions of the unattractive creatures inhabiting Barnegat Bay this summer.
And it gets worse.
In the polyp stage, the jellyfish like to find hard surfaces to grow on.
The development of thousands of homes on the shores of the bay gives them exactly that, in the form of plastic floats supporting docks for all of those homes.
Throw in nitrogen runoff from fertilizing lawns upstream, along with the nitrogen that comes from burning fossil fuels in automobiles and coal-powered electric plants, and the bay's entire ecosystem is upended.
That nitrogen causes algae blooms that suck oxygen out of the water when they die and are eaten by bacteria.
Predator fish die off, leaving the bay to the sea nettles, which can easily exist in low-oxygen water environments, according to Paul Bologna, Montclair State's Director of Aquatic and Coastal Sciences.
"Jellyfish globally are increasing because we've eliminated their predators," Bologna explained. "We've provided environmental conditions that allow them to flourish."
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
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Japan’s coastal cities and towns are under the threat of an invasion of Nomura jellyfish; billions of enormous, gelatinous creatures are on approach. Far from your average jellyfish, the Nomura have achieved “monster” status by growing in size up to six feet in diameter and weighing as much as 450 pounds."Massive groups of colossal jellyfish drift in the direction of Japan, and billions of these enormous, gelatinous creatures inflict disorder on the coastal towns and cities of the country; jellyfish numbers increase due to overfishing."
Its interesting to note, the blooms are caused by overfishing, and the fishermen are mad they have to deal with the jellyfish.
Anyway they may be big but the REAL monsters of the jellyfish world are some of the smallest:
Irukandji Jellyfish
So that bugger is closely related ( Box jellyfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) to the Cubozoa thats turning up off the shores of Hawaii nowadays.
Box jellies actually have four TRUE eyes as well as simple light receptors. They can actually swim as quickly as we walk and can navigate very well around obstacles or nets.
And to think people are scared of sharks lolCarybdea marsupialis is a cubomedusa that is found on many occasions in the coastal waters of Mediterranean Spain. However, until recently it was always as individuals or in low numbers but never in high densities. During the summer of 2008 and 2009, populations with abnormally high densities were detected.
In 2008 and 2009 sampling was organised to catch a large quantity of adult cubomedusas. The Carybdea marsupialis adults are present during the summer - autumn season at least until the middle of November, when the adult disappears.
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Man, the Japanese get into some weird stuff, lol. But I would have been interested to see a WhalePig, mmmm all that bacon.
Found this sight randomly a few weeks ago, Eye opening, lol: Japan is Weird - Strange and Bizarre Japanese Photos
When I eat, It's the food who is scared
I dont think the Japanese ever seriously planned to actually create whale and cow/pig hybrids for real. It was likely just a good chance to play in tonnes of whale bull 'milk'.
Personally my tastes are a bit more..... conventional.
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Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Im not that delusional Donny, lol, but seriously imagine all that bacon. I think I will be buying a pack of balloons and melting chocolate at shopping this week.
When I eat, It's the food who is scared
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Test-tube Baby Whales? Cow-Whale Hybrids?
I dunno, just how big do we need pigs to get lol
Have you ever used these sites before?
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Cant find the exact one I wanted but they are handy lol
encouraged me to try some dam crazy combos
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
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looks pretty average to me actually
but its a start I suppose
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Turtles lured to UK by jellyfish feast - Channel 4 NewsThe Marine Conservation Society says the huge number of jellyfish are luring the turtle population from their nesting grounds in the Caribbean to UK waters.
Leatherback turtles, with their distinct ridged shell, are the largest of all sea turtles. They can grow up to 3 metres long and weigh almost one tonne.
Surprise Increase
Dwindling numbers in recent years have seen the species face extinction in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, but there has been a surprise increase in numbers in the northern hemisphere, particularly the Irish Sea.
Turtle specialist Dr Peter Richardson said it was not clear why leatherback numbers were on the rise across the Atlantic ocean.
"While conservation action at important nesting beaches is likely to be playing a part, it may also be due to the increasing availability of their jellyfish prey, combined with collapses in the populations of predatory fish such as tuna and sharks," he said.
The vast blooms of jellyfish have been linked to warmer seas and and overfishing, which has reduced their natural predators.
Monitoring Movements
August is the peak time to see leatherback turtles in UK waters, as they arrive from their nesting grounds in the Caribbean.
Unlike other reptiles, they are able to maintain a higher body temperature using metabolically generated heat.
There have been at least a dozen sightings in South West Wales and England this Summer.
But conservation groups are urging beach-goers to report sightings of leatherbacks to ensure their survival in future years.
"We want to know where and when they occur and if there are any hotspots so we know where they are and can run any protective measures where they occur," Dr Richardson said.
Leatherbacks have the widest global distribution of all reptile species. They can be found as far north as Canada and Norway and as far south as New Zealand and South America.
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Bigger jellyfish inheriting the ocean, study finds - World news - World environment - msnbc.comWill jellyfish inherit the Earth, or at least the oceans?
A study released Thursday found that the spineless creatures are becoming the dominant predator in areas where fish species are being reduced by overfishing and habitat destruction.
It's not just that reduced competition is giving the jellyfish more room. The jellyfish themselves are evolving into bigger specimens by increasing the water content in their gels, the study concluded.
Since jellyfish don't swim much, they mostly float, that larger mass gives them much better chances of floating into their prey — as well as into other jellyfish for sexual reproduction.
Because of that evolutionary trait, jellyfish have similar potential for growth and reproduction as their fish competitors, the researchers found.
"To achieve this production, they have evolved large, water-laden bodies that increase prey contact rates," the researchers wrote in a study titled: "Faking Giants: The Evolution of High Prey Clearance Rates in Jellyfish."
"While fish developed visual acuity to detect prey, jellyfish depend on a primitive system based on direct contact with prey," noted study co-author Angel Lopez-Urrutia of Spain's Oviedo University. "The key to their success is that by increasing their body size they displace more water and drag more prey toward their tentacles. It's an effective strategy as long as the swimming pace of jellyfish is sufficiently slow."
Unless overfishing is curbed and habitat restored, the authors wrote, the findings suggest "a future 'gelatinous' ocean reminiscent of the early Ediacaran" Period some 600 million years ago.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Science.
Earlier studies have suggested that jellyfish numbers will also increase as ocean waters warm due to greenhouse gas emissions.
Moreover, some of the nearly 2,000 jellyfish species have already expanded their ranges as once-cold waters warm up.
It's not just the fear, and sometimes pain, they strike in beachgoers that has experts worried.
The U.S. National Science Foundation notes that jellyfish have undermined fishing industries in the Bering and Black seas and forced the shutdown of seaside power and desalination plants.
Earlier this summer, jellyfish clogged the seawater cooling system of several power plants in Israel, including a nuclear reactor that had to shut down briefly. Two Scottish nuclear reactors and a Japanese one saw similar disruptions days earlier.
One researcher, Lucas Brotz of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, notes that some have suggested finding more uses for jellyfish, some of which are harvested for consumption in Asia. Some are also collected for their collagen, a tissue used in various medical treatments including rheumatoid arthritis.
But that doesn't deal with the crux of the problem, he says: human practices that favor jellyfish over fish. "There is evidence to show that fishing, pollution, aquaculture, global warming and coastal development can all create conditions which favor jellyfish over fish," Brotz says on his website.
"We may need to decide now whether or not we want our children to be eating jellyfish burgers," he adds. "If our behavior doesn't change, they might not have a choice."
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Just came accross a good link on making a simple jellyfish tank.
MAKE | Build Your Own Jellyfish Habitat
well good and creepy in equal measure really
look at the grin on that guy
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Irukandji Syndrome. Symptoms include severe low back pain, nausea, headache and vomiting, and sometimes “an impending feeling of doom”
SS09.18. Box jellies
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
didnt know jellys were into vert ramp lol
pulling off jelly airs :)Originally Posted by ash
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ― Confucius
The aussie box jellyfish is definitely not something you want to increase in numbers if you have a say in it.....peopls die within minutes getting stung by these guys...if not..they leave massive scarring....oh well guess we're making the bed...so we'll have to sleep in it too....bring on the giant leatherback turtles :)
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ― Confucius
yea but at least they are small.
compare them with this beast
Why Is That Undulating Blob Of Flesh Inspecting My Oil Rig? : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Wow. That . Was . Some. Creepy. Shizzle
US scientists have used rat cells and silicone to create an artificial jellyfish that swims and pulses just like the real thing.
The bioengineered “creature” was made by layering cells from a rat's heart onto a microscopic sheet of silicone.
Watch the video above
Researchers from Caltech and Harvard University then placed the jellyfish in a salty solution and gave it an electric shock to stimulate the heart cells into contracting.
"Genetically, this thing is a rat," biophysicist Kit Parker said. "We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish."
The “jellyrat” - or "Medusoid" as it's been dubbed - mimics the pumping action of the human heart, using muscular contractions to move fluid in and out propelling it forward.
Scientists are already working on a more complex organism, and are hoping to use the jellyrat to test heart medication.
Read more: Jellyrat: 'We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish' | Space, Military and Medicine | News.com.au
lol go science
go you good thing!
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
Louie: "Hey, I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?"
Tony: "No, what I said was: 'He sleeps with the fishes'."
A little nonsense, now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
I’ve made controversial comments, but did I ever say anything that was wrong?
I'm one of the team @ AOA! But not the boss lol. You can get in contact with Ben by email sales@aquariumproducts.com.au
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It’s now known that the brush of a single tentacle is enough to induce “Irukandji syndrome.” It sets in twenty to thirty minutes after a sting so minor it leaves no mark, and is often not even felt. Pain is initially focused in the lower back. Soon the entire lumbar region is gripped by debilitating cramps and pounding pain—as if someone is taking a baseball bat to your kidneys. Then comes the nausea and vomiting, which continues every minute or so for around twelve hours. Shooting spasms grip the arms and legs, blood pressure escalates, breathing becomes difficult, and the skin begins to creep, as if worms are burrowing through it. Victims are often gripped with a sense of “impending doom” and in their despair beg their doctors to put them out of their misery.
They’re Taking Over! by Tim Flannery | The New York Review of BooksWhen I began writing this book,… I had a naive gut feeling that all was still salvageable…. But I think I underestimated how severely we have damaged our oceans and their inhabitants. I now think that we have pushed them too far, past some mysterious tipping point that came and went without fanfare, with no red circle on the calendar and without us knowing the precise moment it all became irreversible. I now sincerely believe that it is only a matter of time before the oceans as we know them and need them to be become very different places indeed. No coral reefs teeming with life. No more mighty whales or wobbling penguins. No lobsters or oysters. Sushi without fish.
I realise its an epic read.
But this link is worth it.
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I'm one of the team @ AOA! But not the boss lol. You can get in contact with Ben by email sales@aquariumproducts.com.au
AOA is a proud sponsor of QLDAF so check us out http://www.aquariumproducts.com.au Dont forget to mention you are a QLDAF member at the register in store or in the shipping instructions to get 10% off.
NASA Has Been Breeding Jellyfish in Space for 20 Years
some more info on the space jellys
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NASA Has Been Breeding Jellyfish in Space for 20 Years
some more info on the space jellys
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I love jellyfish pictures.
Such pretty, delicate horrible pain lol
Fascinating Jellyfish Of The Deep Put On An Elegant Dance For The Camera
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