Large jellyfish swarms are changing certain tourist destinations into scary places with these stinging creatures. Main areas that are being hit by this are Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, the east coast of the U.S., the Bering Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, Australia, the Black Sea and other European seas, the Sea of Japan, the North Sea and Namibia.
These jellyfish which can cover hundreds of square miles -- cause injuries and deaths to people in the water, and have caused damage to marinas, desalination plants, ships and nuclear power plants. Since the 1980s, jellyfish have cost the fishing industries hundreds of millions of dollars.
From these large groups of some deadly, small jellyfish in Australia to groups of hundreds of millions of large jellyfish in the Sea of Japan, some say that explosions of jellyfish are happening because human activities. Scientists and reports blame this on pollution, climate change, introductions of non-native organisms, overfishing and the presence of artificial structures.
wow thats not good I hope they dont swarm when I go surfing next weekend!
ReplyDeleteThis article scares me because I am terrified of jellyfish, even the clear ones that don't sting you. I can deffinatly say that I will be in the ocean a lot less this summer if their are swarms of jellyfish everywhere. Hopefully this article wasn't applying to the Jersey coast.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why there are so many jellyfish just showing up in different areas of the world? It's strange and a little scary to know out of no where a swarm of a million jellyfish can just come and sting you.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately there is nothing we can do about this except stop polluting, climate change and everything else of that sort is just getting worse. My friend in Hawaii said that you can not even surf off some islands because they are a danger.
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