Comments on: Jellyfish Taking Over World’s Oceans; Shutting Down Nuclear Power Plants

By: greg ruddellsr.

greg ruddellsr. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:18:20 +0000

It’s very simple the increased food for jellyfish from fertilizer runoff into the oceans example – Austrailia runoff that increases the Giant jellies and starfish that destroy the Coral reefs and the decline of the Seaturtles from the poaching of their eggs,nets,plastic ingestion,trawling,pollution,ECT…How to fight this?Ck out http://www.catchconservationfund.com and the other sites w/it.

By: snickers

snickers — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:52:38 +0000

Tell Spongebob.

By: Toborgo

Toborgo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:43:14 +0000

All of the cute little balloons blown out to sea, discarded plastic bags, and plastic handles for six packs all wind up in the ocean. They look like jellyfish to turtles, the natural predators of jellyfish.
We are stupidly eating turtle eggs, (seems cheaper than Viagra) and our plastic litter is killing the turtles so that jellyfish are taking over. “Let them eat jellyfish,” say our overlords. And the fetid, cancerous, polluted world we leave to posterrity? Gouge out your eyes so you won’t see the disaster we created.

By: Blue Sky Durban

Blue Sky Durban — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:40:40 +0000

We had some blooms here in Durban years ago, but since the Turtle populations have started to recover its been great! DOWN WITH TURTLE FISHING, CITES must ban all Turtle catches.

Cheero and thanks for the amazingly appropriate article

By: Joe Mud

Joe Mud — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:30:43 +0000

Can they be turned into liquid fuel? That would be pretty sweet.

By: BCPipes

BCPipes — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:00:01 +0000

Make them into shoes that our teenage daughters will beg us for.

By: Byron

Byron — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:25:48 +0000

Before we decide to start yet another bioenineering project that eventually causes more harm than good maybe we should be asking ourselves why jellyfish are “taking over”. You know after a forest fire all the normal species of plant and animal life do not just magically re-appear. First certain specific species begin to “take over” like fireweed. But these genesis species help to pave the way for the reintroduction of the others by bringing the ground PH etc back to normal. Maybe jellyfish are trying to bring things back to normal. Now is it in response to Climate Change or PCBs or overfishing, who knows. But a kneejerk “Lets kill ‘em all!” attitude could be exactly what we shoudn’t do. In other words, can we please Think before we act?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:34:25 +0000

mmm….peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich

By: iwiLetter.com

iwiLetter.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:31:32 +0000

mmmmm, Jellyfish sushi!

Write a letter to your favorite restaurant and maybe we’ll start seeing it on the menu!

By: Anja

Anja — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:20:33 +0000

I knew it all along – that the problem was not overfishing, it’s the
Jellyfish – very bad Jellyfish …

By: steven

steven — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:59:45 +0000

and they frie up well with sweet chilly and butter or oil ,sliced crummed in a hot pan,, :)

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:17:24 +0000

Nuke ‘em.

By: Rick Dickson

Rick Dickson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:59:55 +0000

We could trawl for jellyfish. They are considered a delicacy in a number of Asian countries (e.g., Japan and China) when properly prepared. They are basically stripped of their tentacles and dessicated. They are said to have a good “crunchy” flavor. We should encourage a market for them worldwide. They could be prepared so as not to resemble jellyfish, just flat round pancake like seafood that can be deep fried or prepared in other ways. To improve marketing, we could even bestow a euphemistic name on them, such as
“seacakes”, etc. Jellyfish are high in minerals and good for you nutritionally, too.

We should try and remove as many of them as possible, since their natural predators are almost gone, conditions are good for their growth, and they are devouring a large portion of the young of remaining fish and other marine species. In essence we need to become their new predators in order to save the oceans.

By: Jaosn Nelson

Jaosn Nelson — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:26:47 +0000

…or competitors because they are also eliminated by overfishing.

By: John

John — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:44:47 +0000

Maybe it’s the over fishing that us humans are doing. So now the Jelly fish don’t have
any natural predators…