Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/19/2008 11:31:54 AM PDT by PROCON
The dramatic proliferation of jellyfish in oceans around the world, driven by overfishing and climate change, is a sure sign of ecosystems out of kilter, warn experts. "Jellyfish are an excellent bellwether for the environment," explains Jacqueline Goy, of the Oceanographic Institute of Paris. "The more jellyfish, the stronger the signal that something has changed."
Brainless creatures composed almost entirely of water, the primitive animals have quietly filled a vacuum created by the voracious human appetite for fish.
Dislodging them will be difficult, marine biologists say.
"Jellyfish have come to occupy the place of many other species," notes Ricardo Aguilar, research director for Oceana, a international conservation organisation
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They could fry the jellyfish up like how they do in China.
Like I always say; if it is, it is natural.
At first I thought this was an article about Republicans in Congress... I was wrong.
Actually medusa are similar to, but not the same as, jellyfish. Whoever wrote this knows less about marine biology than me.
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