Enormous Jellyfish sinks Japanese fishing boat

That answered my next question, thanks.

Are those jellysticks, or tentaclesticks ?

Seriously though.. great post.
A couple years back I saw a doco on, I don't know, Discovery, PBS, one of those... I have been looking for it for sometime now, but cannot find it.

In that film they also went to places around the world shedding a light on shifts in marine life in the ocean, mainly depopluation of large fish of all types, and it included an interesting sideline on the Mediterranean.

To share a couple snippets about that (and fogive my foggy memory for the not-to-sharp or inaccurate details)...
1) I think it was in the Jamaican Islands they were revealing how the fishing trade there has choked horribly. In the markets they showed us where there used to be huge supplies of very very large fish from various species there were now not only significantly diminished supplies, but also absence of certain species (or families) any longer, and the "large" fish anymore are no more than half the size of what they used to get. They went out with the fishermen who "toured all the places" and described vast areas where they used to fish were there were no longer any fish there. And the places where they were fishing ...where there used to be major abundance, and of very large fish, there was now a great deal of scarcity of any fish.

The filmmakers went to many places showing similar situations... it was really rather shocking.

If I remember correctly, most of the disparagement was attributed to over-fishing, or neglectful fishing of certain species, and also to the affects from world shipping (transport of life forms to otherwise non-native far off places).

2) A good deal of discussion also covered the marine plant life in the oceans, showing us all these (what the scientists/biologists consider to be unnaturally) drastic changes where species were either totally, or being totally, wiped out, and either nothing was replacing the life there, or a certain species came in so dominantly that they would kill off everything else. In some case such a species might plateau and then die out as well, leaving a barren zone.

In the Mediterranean there is a huge shocker. I cannot remember the exact details, but some aquarium plant has taken hold in major areas there that is wiping everything else out, meaning plants and fishes. It's really unbelievable (the shear magnitude of it).

If anyone recognizes my film reference here, please name it.

Not sure of the film but End of the Line is the latest one on the subject. There are good guides around on what to eat and not eat. I'll have a look at post it.

...gettin' rid of Richard Craniums on an island...

I think I just fell in love.

yeah because American certainly hasnt over fished our oceans and streams and nor do we import fish from Japan.

oh well obviously if i am a critic of japan i could not possibly be a critic of the us or any other country. oooorrr... i just said what i said because this particular article happens to be about japan.... and also because in the whole the japanese government is known for overlooking the huge atrocities that are commited by it's fleet as they regularly fish outside their boundaries and break international law. i dont eat fish. i don't buy fish. i dont go fishing. everyone has to be responsible for themselves as well.

It is a well known fact that clover field exists in lake michigan and is waiting to destroy chicago. No such creature exists in japan... only large boat destroying jelly fish.

you mean godzilla.

They produce excruciating pain, and death.

training jellyfish? I don't think thats even possible

I didn't think I actually needed to explain it but that was a joke... My bad.

that was my version of sarcasm. Sorry for the crossed wires

oops. Sorry. My bad.... Again.

hahahahaha oh communication... lol

Nature needs to rebel. I have no sympathy for Japan's raping the sea. They happen to like fish, but the fish are going extinct. They are like our greedy bankers and willing to kill the goose that fed them.
I quit eating fishyears ago. Hallibut has almost dissappeared. They use boats that rake the bottom of the sea, killing everything.

Yep.