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[Alaska Fishing Vacation] Looking for fishing tips to catch trout | Alaska Fishing Vacation: , December 16, 2008 (ENS) - Jellyfish blooms are ruining some of the world’s most beautiful vacation spots, according to a new online report by the National Science Foundation on massive jellyfish swarms in U.S. waters and around the world.

[Aquafornia] Jellyfish swarms invade ecosystems out of balance: At least 150 million people around the world are exposed to jellyfish every year, the report says. Swarms of stinging jellyfish and jellyfish-like animals are transforming many world-class fisheries and tourist destinations into “jellytoriums”

[BIG BOY Fishing] Jellyfish Swarms Invade Ecosystems Out of Balance - Windows Live: Jellyfish Swarms Invade Ecosystems Out of Balance. Jellyfish blooms are ruining some of the world's most beautiful vacation spots, according to a new online report by the National Science Foundation on massive jellyfish swarms in U.S. .

[The Sietch Blog] The Sietch Blog » The Hoard Commith, Quake In Fear All Yon Fishy Foes: From large swarms of potentially deadly, peanut-sized jellyfish in Australia to swarms of hundreds of millions of refrigerator-sized jellyfish in the Sea of Japan, suspicion is growing that population explosions of jellyfish are being generated by human activities. Human activities that have been suggested by media reports and scientists as possible causes of some jellyfish swarms include pollution, climate change, introductions of non-native species, overfishing and the presence of artificial structures, such as oil and gas rigs.

[Tangled Up in Blue Guy] Cnidarians and Global Warming | Tangled Up in Blue Guy: 1.  I’ll start with sea-jellies (which is the more accurate term for jellyfish.)   Jellies have probably been swarming for hundreds of millions of years.  It’s a phenomenon thought to happen when jellies are under stress for some reason or other.  We can’t call it a “behavior,” as such because you’ll remember I said that jellies have no central nervouse center that we could properly call brains.

[Latest Biology News from Bio-Medicine.Org] New online report on massive jellyfish swarm... ( Massive swarms ...: From large swarms of potentially deadly, peanut-sized jellyfish in Australia to swarms of hundreds of millions of refrigerator-sized jellyfish in the Sea of Japan, suspicion is growing that population explosions of jellyfish are being generated by human activities. Human activities that have been suggested by media reports and scientists as possible causes of some jellyfish swarms include pollution, climate change, introductions of non-native species, overfishing and the presence of artificial structures, such as oil and gas rigs.

[rss title www.newsguide.us] Science - Climate change puts forests and people at risk ...: New online report on massive jellyfish swarms releasedMassive swarms of stinging jellyfish and jellyfish-like animals are transforming many world-class fisheries and tourist destinations into veritable jellytoriums that are .

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[TreeHugger] NSF Reports on Jellyfish Gone Wild : TreeHugger: Could we stop raising as much cattle and instead eat the jellyfish? It seems that we have killed off most of the natural predators of the jellyfish -- shouldn't we then ethically become one of the predators in a big way, especially if we are increasing their numbers tremendously -- partly by raising cattle who emit GHG and who often foul the waters.

[MarineBio Blog] They’re swarming”¦and it’s scarier than fiction » MarineBio Blog: In the context of jellyfish swarms, the word is a very serious indicator of the health of the ocean. It means that ecosystems are way out of balance. The predators that normally feed on jellyfish are declining due to overfishing, ...

[Jagadees's English Weblog] Jellyfish invasion « Jagadees’s English Weblog: Jellyfish, which are one of the least studied forms of marine life, are having an increasingly harmful effect on tourism, aquaculture and fisheries as their numbers rapidly expand. Episodes of mass stinging of swimmers in the Mediterranean and large-scale damage to fisheries from the Black Sea to the South Atlantic have prompted the joint study from the universities of Swansea and Cork.

[Reflector] Metamorphosis: Teaches Lessons Through Ecosystem Research · Discovery Of Warm Plasma Cloak Surrounding Earth, New Region Of Magnetosphere · Why Atmospheric Pressure Peaks At 10am And 10pm In The Tropics · Massive Jellyfish Swarms In Hawaii, .

[Gristmill] Ranger crew encounters jellyfish swarm | Gristmill: The ...: While I can't speak to this jellyfish concentration (cause/implications), I can say that I have seen very large (and msyterious) contentrations of jellyfish while kayaking in the relatively pristine and healthy waters along the north coast of the Gulf of Alaska.

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