James RickardJellyfish in a warming world
January 3rd 2010 01:04
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership got this report from Discovery News and I'm taking it from the Consortium-----
Here's a great picture from the Consortium showing a giant jellyfish drifting off the coast of Japan
Once a rarity, jellyfish swarms now occur almost annually and range along several thousand kilometers of the Japanese coast and even beyond Japan. As numbers of jellyfish sitings climb, they have stopped or hindered fishing in many areas.
Japan is noted because of an indisputable rise in such cases. in some areas fishermen are disappointed to see large percentages of their catch killed by venomous tentacles of the gelatinous masses. Other fishermen have given up in the face of an ecological disaster.
However, trouble is not limited to Japan. Polluted water off the coast of China provide microscopic plankton for "jellies " to feed upon. Further, power and desalination plants in Africa and the Middle East have been shut down and untold numbers of bathers worldwide have been terrorized.
Scientists look at the migration of "jellies" to colder waters as evidence of global warming.
Remember to take the hooks outta yer pocket before ya sit down!
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