SO GIANT JELLYFISH
Return of the colossus jellyfish
To the revel of divers, and to the embarrassment of fishermen, the swarms of colossus Echizen kurage cnidarian (Nomura’s jellyfish) that assail the shore of the Sea of Nihon apiece season are back.
These photos were condemned 5 meters underwater meet offshore from the inshore municipality of Echizen in Fukui prefecture, where the cnidarian mobs began to come most a period after than normal.
Manabu Nakamata, a 38-year-old adventurer from metropolis and an lover of the ogre jellyfish, says, “They are astonishingly hornlike to the touch. They are big, and extremely impressive.” Big indeed — Echizen kurage crapper acquire up to 2 meters (6 ft. 7 in.) in diam and matter up to 200 kilograms (440 lb.) each.
The topical fishermen, however, are not impressed. Each year, the colossus cnidarian wreak disturbance on the sportfishing business by destroying nets and crushing, intoxication and sliming another seek in the catches. In the stylish advise in the struggle on jellyfish, Fukui prefecture is nonindustrial newborn and economical weapons fashioned to powderise those that threaten their shores.
[Source: Sankei]
