- Remove jellyfish that become too big for the tank. With the right care, your jellyfish should grow to a healthy size. You can prevent overcrowding by only having a few jellyfish in your tank at a time. If your jellyfish appear to outgrow your tank or if you feel your tank is overcrowded, you may need to remove one of your jellyfish.
- Jellyfish fall from a filter into a container at Orot Rabin coal-fired power station in Israel, July 5, 2011. The power station uses seawater for cooling purposes and has to filter out and dispose.
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Pink, slimy and repellent, the Nomura’s jellyfish is an authentic horror of the deep that's been assaulting Japan. Now the creatures have sunk a 10-ton fishing trawler.
The boat was capsized off Chiba in Japan, as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish. Four years after they last reared their slimy heads, and for reasons that remain mysterious, an armada of the gelatinous giants has gathered in the Yellow Sea off China and the Korean peninsula.
Now it has drifted into the Sea of Japan, and brought down the Diasan Shinsho-maru. One of the largest jellyfish in the world, the Nomura's jellyfish can grow up to 6 feet in diameter and weigh as much as 400 pounds.
The Telegraph reports that the boat's crew was thrown into the sea, but the three men were rescued by another trawler. The local Coast Guard office reported that the weather was clear and the sea was calm at the time of the accident.
Experts believe weather and water conditions in the breeding grounds, off the coast of China, have been ideal for the jellyfish in recent months.
'The arrival is inevitable,' Professor Shinichi Ue at Hiroshima University, told the Yomiuri newspaper. 'A huge jellyfish typhoon will hit the country.'
In 2005, fishermen looking for anchovies, salmon and yellowtail began finding huge numbers of the jellyfish in their nets. When the Nomuras grow larger than a metre in diameter, half a dozen of them can destroy a fishing net. The fish caught alongside them are poisoned and covered in slime and rendered unsaleable.
So serious was the situation that salmon boats in northern Japan stopped going out, and in some places fishermen lost 80 per cent of their income. Even staff at some of the nuclear power plants along the Japan Sea coast found that the jellyfish got sucked into the pumps which take in sea water to cool the reactors.
No one is sure about the reasons for the slimy plague. One theory is that climate change is heating up the sea water and encouraging them to breed. Another blames effluent from rivers in China, which carries nutrients on which the jellyfish feed. Another blames over-fishing of other species, leaving a surfeit of plankton for the Echizen kurage to feed on.
The Times of London contributed to this story.
The growing numbers of jellyfish in global waters could present a new opportunity for the aquaculture feed industry, according to a new project.
Global climate change and the human impact on marine ecosystems are combining to result in decreasing the number of fish in the ocean. Since overfishing decreases the numbers of jellyfish competitors, their blooms are on the rise. They are widely regarded as annoying and even dangerous – and famously have been known to wipe out large numbers of farmed fish in marine cages.
However, the GoJelly project, which has attracted €6 million of EU-funding and is coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany, would like to change this perception and use jellyfish to produce fish feeds, fertilizers, or act as microplastic filters.
More and more often, jellyfish appear in huge swarms, which have already destroyed whole fish farms on European coasts.
A number of jellyfish species are poisonous, while some tropical species are even among the most toxic animals on earth, and rising water temperatures, ocean acidification and overfishing seem to favor the jellyfish blooms. More and more often, they appear in huge swarms, which have already destroyed whole fish farms on European coasts and blocked cooling systems of power stations near the coast.
Dream team
A consortium of 15 scientific institutions from eight countries is involved in the four-year project, and they want to sensibly use this perceived threat.
'In Europe alone, the imported American comb jelly has a biomass of one billion tons. While we tend to ignore the jellyfish there must be other solutions,' says Dr Jamileh Javidpour of GEOMAR, initiator and coordinator of GoJelly.
First, there is still basic work to do for all partners. The life cycle of many jellyfish species is only scarcely explored. Therefore, it is almost impossible to predict when and why a large jellyfish bloom will occur.
'This is what we want to change so that large jellyfish swarms can be caught before they reach the coasts,' says Dr Javidpour.
Jellyfish potential
At the same time, the project partners will already be working on the second step and try to answer the question: What to do with the caught biomass?
Fish in fish farms are currently fed with captured wild fish which does not reduce the problem of overfishing, but increases it. Jellyfish as feed would be much more sustainable and would protect the natural fish stocks.
'Fish in fish farms are currently fed with captured wild fish which does not reduce the problem of overfishing, but increases it. Jellyfish as feed would be much more sustainable and would protect the natural fish stocks,' say the GoJelly team.
Another idea is to the jellyfish against another, man-made threat.
'Studies have shown that mucus of jellyfish can bind microplastic. Therefore, we want to test whether biofilters can be produced from jellyfish. These biofilters could then be used in sewage treatment plants or in factories where microplastic is produced,' explain the researchers.
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The researchers also think of food production for human consumption. 'In some cultures, jellyfish are already on the menu. As long as the end product is no longer slimy, it could also gain greater general acceptance,' stresses Dr Javidpour.
Finally yet importantly, jellyfish contain collagen, a substance very much sought after in the cosmetics industry.
Norwegian role
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In the project, the Norwegian partners from NTNU and SINTEF Ocean, Associate Professor Dr Aberle-Malzahn (NTNU) and Dr Rachel Tiller (SINTEF Ocean) and their teams will analyse how abiotic (eg hydrography, temperature), biotic (abundance, biomass, ecology, reproduction) and biochemical parameters (stoichiometry, food quality) affect the initiation of jellyfish blooms. Based on a comprehensive analysis of triggering mechanisms, origin of seed populations and ecological modelling, more reliable predictions on jellyfish bloom formation of specific taxa in the GoJelly target areas will be achieved. This knowledge will allow sustainable harvesting of jellyfish communities from various Northern and Southern European populations.
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This harvest will provide a marine biomass of unknown potentials that will be explored among others by researchers at SINTEF Ocean, exploring the possible usage areas. In addition, a team from SINTEF Ocean's strategic program Clean Ocean will work with cross-European colleagues on developing a filter from the mucus of the jellyfish that will catch microplastics from household products (fleece sweaters, cosmetics, etc) and prevent these from entering the marine ecosystem. Finally, SINTEF Ocean is leading the work on the socio-ecological system and games, where they will explore the potentials of an emerging international management regime for a global effort to mitigate the negative effects of microplastics in the oceans.
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'Jellyfish can be used for many purposes. We see this as an opportunity to use the potential of the huge biomass drifting right before our front door,' summarizes Dr Javidpour.