The blobs that ate our oceans — Are jellyfish the cockroaches of a climate-warmed seas?
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Michael Casey’s lede from Kokonogi, Japan makes it hard to stop reading, eh? A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating mass crowding out the catch of mackerel and sea bass. Dinnertime! Yum, jellyfish again! That’s what it could come to, a leading fisheries expert believes. But first, a few more details from Casey’s story for the Associated Press that was published this week: • These explosions in jellyfish explosion along the Japanese coast used to occur maybe every 40 years or so. Now they’re becoming pretty much an annual affair. • They’re occurring along thousands of kilometers of the Japanese seaside, imperili
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