The Attack of the Killer Jellyfish!
This Japanese story seems to have become the bored reporter’s friend: The Attack of the Killer Jellyfish! Always great pictures–the jellyfish show up every winter—nothing really changes.
See the previous 3Yen report: “Attack of the giant jellyfish!”
Ok, ok, let me bring one fact you can casually drop at the next party you’re at: “Did you know that Japan now has a massive smack problem? A collection of jellyfish is known as a “smack.”
Japan grapples with invasion of giant jellyfish
TOKYO (Reuters) —- A slimy jellyfish weighing as much as a sumo wrestler has Japan’s fishing industry in the grip of its poisonous tentacles.Vast numbers of Echizen kurage, or Nomura’s jellyfish, have appeared around Japan’s coast since July, clogging and ripping fishing nets and forcing fishermen to spend hours hacking them apart before bringing home their reduced catches……more…
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January 22nd, 2006 at 11:54 am
Ya, I read this and my first thought was “EWWW!” The picture of it in the net just looks like a pool of guts or something.
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:57 am
The jellyfish in Yokohama harbor get so thick in the late summer I swear I can walk on water.