[Keith_McClary]

An overwhelming attack by billions of jellyfish has wiped out the entire stock of Northern Ireland's only salmon farm - some 100,000 fish worth £2m, AP reports.
The "dense pack" of mauve stingers, covering ten square miles to a depth of 35 feet*, last week swamped the two net pens holding the salmon about a mile off the coast of the Glens of Antrim. Employees of the The Northern Salmon Co Ltd battled for hours in three boats to a force a way through the jelly-hordes, only to find the fish already dead or dying of stings and stress.

The company's MD, John Russell, said: "It was unprecedented, absolutely amazing. The sea was red with these jellyfish and there was nothing we could do about it, absolutely nothing."
The mauve stinger, aka Pelagia nocticula, is, AP notes, well known for its "purplish night-time glow and its propensity for terrorising bathers in the warmer Mediterranean Sea". However, it is only in the last ten years it been spotted so far north, something scientists attribute to global warming.
The Northern Salmon Co, which exports its organic product to Europe and the US, now faces closure if it doesn't get emergency government aid, Russell said. ®
Bootnote
*No, we don't know what that is in cubic furlongs - we'll leave it to you lot to do the maths.[web]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1195684462/html/1.stm[/web]

There's a horror flick in this, what should it be titled?

[jasonraymondson]

That was great. Nothing makes me happier than watching the wrath of nature.

We already fucked up the planet so much that there is no turning back.. Nature is going to wipe our ass out and this is just a sampling of what global climate change is going to bring about.

[kabu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'T')hat was great. Nothing makes me happier than watching the wrath of nature.

[pedalling_faster]

there's got to be an use for these things, a way to neutralize the poison in the stingers, an animal that we can eat that eats the jellyfish.

http://www.fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/re ... i?r=228147

... recipe for Sesame Jellyfish.

i think Pelagia Nocticula swarms about every 10 years.

[blukatzen]

just out of curiousity, what is the predator of these (or most) Jellyfish?

Blu

[smallpoxgirl]

Hard to feel too sad about that. Salmon farms are an atrocity.

[threadbear]

Grotesque. It's like bad sci-fi

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'j')ust out of curiousity, what is the predator of these (or most) Jellyfish?

Blu

[culicomorpha]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', 'T')he company's MD, John Russell, said: "It was unprecedented, absolutely amazing. The sea was red with these jellyfish and there was nothing we could do about it, absolutely nothing."

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'j')ust out of curiousity, what is the predator of these (or most) Jellyfish?

Blu

[jasonraymondson]

Martha Stewart is an imperialistic ass

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '
')HA! I imagine a Martha Stewart show down the line on "preparing Thanksgiving Jellyfish casserole"...It's a "Good Thing".

[jasonraymondson]

I would like to preorder

[RedStateGreen]

This is just incredible. Has something like this ever happened before?

[blukatzen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', '
')HA! I imagine a Martha Stewart show down the line on "preparing Thanksgiving Jellyfish casserole"...It's a "Good Thing".

[Tyler_JC]

I don't like salmon. As far as I'm concerned, this was a non-event. But if it pushes more restaurants away from wasting menu space on something I don't eat...

Go Jellyfish!!

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'G')rotesque. It's like bad sci-fi

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') don't like salmon. As far as I'm concerned, this was a non-event. But if it pushes more restaurants away from wasting menu space on something I don't eat...

Go Jellyfish!!