Killer Kurage Attack!

[Taro Toporific]

[Big Booger]

That would make a lot of Kurage Sushi

[Taro Toporific]

That would make a lot of Kurage Sushi

Jellyfish invasion?
News24 / 20 Oct 2003
Tokyo - Thousands of giant jellyfish, some with caps as big as the trunk of a car, have appeared off Japan's west coast for the second straight year, entangling themselves in fishing nets, an official said on Monday.
Since mid-September, the jellyfish, spanning more than a metre in width and weighing 100kgs, have been found in the Japan Sea off the coast of Echizen, in Fukui prefecture (state)
... The last time the jellyfish turned up along Japan's coast for a second consecutive year was in 1995, he said. The only other time was in 1958. ...

[Big Booger]

Why do they not just net them and grind them up for tofu seasoning?
I was in Fukui about 6 weeks ago swimming.. glad I didn't make friends with one of these giant kurage.

[Taro Toporific]

Why do they not just net them and grind them up for tofu seasoning?
I was in Fukui about 6 weeks ago swimming.. glad I didn't make friends with one of these giant kurage.

I was watching NHK's 7am Morning News and they said damn things' combined weight in a net full of these monsters was more than their boat. Last year fishermen tried to market them with not much success: way too much supply compared to demand.
Who wants to eat jellyfish more than once a week? Who else besides Japanese (and Chinese) eats jellyfish?

[Big Booger]

They could dry them and sell them as scooby snacks:



LOL They might make good fish bait or chum. They are huge..

[emperor]

HUGE echizen jellyfish, which can weigh up to 200kg and have an umbrella measuring 2m across, have been causing serious damage to the fishing industry off Japan's east coast.

Thousands of the jellyfish have damaged fixed fishing nets while also degrading the freshness of fish by flicking them with their poisonous tentacles.

The population of the jellyfish, the largest variety found in the Japan Sea, has skyrocketed recently.

[IkemenTommy]

This shit is gross.
Not cool for swimmers and surfers either.

They should make it edible and feed it to the homeless

[kurohinge1]

[IkemenTommy]

Echizen Implants

Those are REAL

[Taro Toporific]

Echizen Implants

How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi
The Times, December 07, 2005
Tokyo----THEY are called echizen kurage and they sound like monsters from the trashier reaches of Japanese science fiction.
They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country's food supply. As soon as one is killed more appear to take its place.
Finally, the quarrelsome governments of the region are banding together to unite against the enemy.
Echizen kurage is not an extraterrestrial invader, but a giant jellyfish that is devastating the livelihoods of fishermen in the Sea of Japan. Nomura's jellyfish, as it is known in English, is the biggest creature of its kind off Japan and for reasons that remain mysterious its numbers have surged in the past few months.
The problem has become so serious that fishery officials from Japan, China and South Korea are to meet this month for a "jellyfish summit"...more...

[kurohinge1]

... How do you tackle an invasion of giant jellyfish? Try making sushi
The Times, December 07, 2005
Tokyo---- THEY are called echizen kurage and ... They are 6ft wide and weigh 450lb (200kg), with countless poisonous tentacles, they have drifted across the void to terrorise the people of Japan. Vast armadas of the slimy horrors have cut off the country's food supply... The problem has become so serious that fishery officials from Japan, China and South Korea are to meet this month for a "jellyfish summit"...more...

A collection of jellyfish is known as a smack

So Japanese fishermen have a smack problem?

More proof that too much smack can be bad for you.

[Taro Toporific]

A collection of jellyfish is known as a smack

So Japanese fishermen have a smack problem?

[floatr][/floatr]
Japan grapples with invasion of giant jellyfish
Thu Jan 19, 2:24 AM ET, TOKYO (Reuters) ----A slimy jellyfish weighing as much as a sumo wrestler has Japan's fishing industry in the grip of its poisonous tentacles.
Vast numbers of Echizen kurage, or Nomura's jellyfish, have appeared around Japan's coast since July, clogging and ripping fishing nets and forcing fishermen to spend hours hacking them apart before bringing home their reduced catches.
Representatives of fishing communities around the country gathered in Tokyo on Thursday, hoping to thrash out solutions to a pest that has spread from the Japan Sea to the Pacific coast
...more...

[Mulboyne]

MDN: China dam construction suspected in surge of giant jellyfish in Japan

Construction of the world's largest hydropower dam in China has caused a surge in the number of giant jellyfish off the coast of Japan, researchers from Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies have suggested...more...

[Captain Japan]

China dam construction suspected in surge of giant jellyfish in Japan
Mainichi

Construction of the world's largest hydropower dam in China has caused a surge in the number of giant jellyfish off the coast of Japan, researchers from Japan's National Institute for Environmental Studies have suggested.

Researchers plan to investigate the causal relationship behind the increase in the jellyfish in a study carried out over the next three years. It will be the first study on the connection between the jellyfish and the Three Gorges Dam in China, which has a capacity of 39.3 billion cubic meters of water....more...

[Catoneinutica]

Is any environmental problem in Japan NOT the fault of China? If there is, it's just that a way to blame it on them has not yet been devised.

[otakuden]

[Mulboyne]

Kyodo via Crisscross: Shizuoka reactors' output lowered due to jellyfish

Chubu Electric Power Co. temporarily lowered the output of two reactors Wednesday at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, due to a mass of jellyfish in the sea obstructing their operation, the power company said. The No. 3 and 4 reactors, both boiling-water reactors, were manually lowered to 60 to 70 percent of their output capacity, at 1.1 million kilowatts and 1.137 million kilowatts respectively, after the filter system of a tank used to take water from the sea for coolant automatically shut down at about 1:30 p.m. when the jellyfish gathered around it, Chubu Electric officials said.

[Taro Toporific]

Kyodo via Crisscross: Shizuoka reactors' output lowered due to jellyfish...mass of jellyfish in the sea obstructing their operation,

Just take a peek over the edge of a dock on Tokyo bay. Any place where the waves are somewhat still, amongst the Japanese-love-of-nature litter, the water looks like you could walk across it over the seething mass of jellyfish.

[Taro Toporific]

Jellyfish taking over the seas
NEWS.com.au,June 18, 2007 12:00am
A JELLYFISH plague is threatening shipping and fishing worldwide.
Scientists believe depleted fish stocks have removed competition for jellyfish, allowing them to breed to plague proportions.
Kylie Pitt, from the Griffith University School of Environment, said Japan was experiencing plagues of the giant jellyfish nemopilema....