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Old 11-14-2005, 02:48 AM   #1
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Default Giant Jellyfish off the coast of Japan!
Huge jellyfish torment fishermen off Japan's coast

Yomiuri Shimbun


TOKYO - Huge Echizen jellyfish, which can weigh up to 200 kilograms and have an umbrella measuring two meters across, have been causing serious damage to the fishing industry off Japan's east coast.

Echizen jellyfish are the largest variety found in the Japan Sea, and their population has skyrocketed recently in the East China Sea. Also known as Nomura's jellyfish, they have poisonous tentacles.

Thousands of the jellyfish have damaged fixed fishing nets while also degrading the freshness of fish by flicking them with their tentacles. Fishermen who were gleefully awaiting the high season of winter fishing for yellowtails and salmon, are scratching their heads over how to deal with the problem.

Off the coast of Kurohime in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, a dozen fishermen recently pulled in their fixed shore nets to find their catch consisted mainly of Echizen jellyfish. Only a few yellowtails had been caught.

The fishermen kept the yellowtails and slashed the jellyfish with knives before throwing them back into the sea. They spent about 2 hours disposing of the bothersome jellyfish...................
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Old 11-14-2005, 02:58 AM   #2
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Maybe a Chinese conspiracy?
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Old 11-14-2005, 09:40 AM   #3
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That is digusting. I can even look at that...makes me wanna puke.
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Old 11-14-2005, 09:41 AM   #4
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Holy shit! :shock:
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Old 11-14-2005, 10:16 AM   #5
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oh fuck ! I'm never going to swim in that sea!
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Old 11-14-2005, 12:21 PM   #6
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Old 11-14-2005, 01:17 PM   #7
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Ive been stung 12 times by jelly fish here on the gulf coast, all fairly small ones, its very painfull but the pain faids in 10 or 20 minutes. Every time ive been stung was scuba diving and the cure for the pain is salt water so I just dealt with the pain and kept going. Just as a side note many strange things have happened in our waters this season including redtide that lasted really long, scientists think it was a combo of redtide and some influx of potassium from a local treatment plant. ANd also an extremely early jellyfish season. We started spoting the babys as soon as summer. That is particularly unusual.
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Old 11-14-2005, 01:54 PM   #8
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mmm tasty
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Old 11-14-2005, 02:02 PM   #9
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Wow...I've been stung by big jellyfish before, but that thing could kill!!
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Old 11-14-2005, 03:10 PM   #10
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This is fucking HUGE!!

Just imagine how painful it must be to get a "hug" from one of this things...
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Old 11-14-2005, 03:25 PM   #11
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Ahhhh - the Veyron of the sea....
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Old 11-14-2005, 03:47 PM   #12
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holy shit, that thing is nasty. i hate regular jellyfish but that thing
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Old 11-14-2005, 05:35 PM   #13
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aw man thats gross...imagine just swimming in the sea and seeing that thing in front of u
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Old 11-14-2005, 05:41 PM   #14
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they are fucking huge
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Old 11-14-2005, 07:22 PM   #15
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hahah true, scary shit, same as with a blue whale or whatever their english name is...but both of them aren't hostile animals, where jellyfish tend to be sort of erm...nasty
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