The highlights: (it's a long @$$ article )


The venom of the Nomura, the world's largest jellyfish, a creature up to 6 feet in diameter, can ruin a whole day's catch by tainting or killing fish stung when ensnared with them in the maze of nets here in northwest Japan's Wakasa Bay.
"Some fishermen have just stopped fishing," said Taiichiro Hamano, 67. "When you pull in the nets and see jellyfish, you get depressed."
This year's jellyfish swarm is one of the worst he has seen, Hamano said. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, they are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand miles of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan.
Scientists believe climate change — the warming of oceans — has allowed some of the almost 2,000 jellyfish species to expand their ranges, appear earlier in the year and increase overall numbers, much as warming has helped ticks, bark beetles and other pests to spread to new latitudes.
The gelatinous seaborne creatures are blamed for decimating fishing industries in the Bering and Black seas, forcing the shutdown of seaside power and desalination plants in Japan, the Middle East and Africa, and terrorizing beachgoers worldwide, the U.S. National Science Foundation says.


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Overfishing is one cause for the explosion in jellyfish populations.The more jellyfish, the stronger the signal that something has changed. This lessen the chances of the fishermen to have abundant fishing in their coasts. Jellies are like the weeds of the ocean. They are fairly resistant to changing environments, so as carbon pollution causes ocean waters to warm up and to become more acidic--a process that kills more sensitive organisms like coral and plankton-- jellyfish have moved in and taken over emptying habitats.Lets act like loving nature, its like emergency loans to mother earth.

meh. too late fix the problem, even if we were the cause. mediterranean fisherman stopped setting nets in seas they've been fishing for hundreds of years because the fish are gone, and they've adapted. the japanese are a resourceful people, they'll adapt as well.

Yeah, I fully expect to get spam in the near future involving the magic penis enlarging powers of the giant jellyfish tentacle.