Potent mauve stinger jellyfish invade British waters

[ensho]

http://cc.rsoe.hu/?pageid=news_read&hirid=455


Climate change is causing swarms of highly venomous jellyfish to move into British waters, scientists have discovered.



The lethal mauve stingers - Pelagia noctiluca - are tiny but can cover hundreds of thousands of square miles in one “bloom”. They are normally found in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Billions are swarming into waters in the northeast Atlantic as sea temperatures rise and currents change, a study in the journal Biology Letters says. The creatures can devastate fish farms and in one recent case 100,000 salmon were killed. People bathing in British waters are in no grave danger at present, according to Richard Kirby, a research fellow at the University of Plymouth.
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salmon are having a tough enough time surviving and now 100,000 have been killed by jellyfish. sigh

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I saw these in a harbor near Copenhagen. THOUSANDS. n/t

[MineralMan]

2. At least it's not the dreaded fuchsia jellyfish.

[damntexdem]

3. I htought that mauve was an artificial color that never existed in nature.

Of course, our alterations of nature are what brought on global warming, so the movement of the jellyfish to British waters.

[Solly Mack]

4. Pictures