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John Moosie
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 22, 2007 - 01:21am PT
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Whoa...Locker..What did you do?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071121/sc_afp/nirelandbritainanimalsfish
BELFAST (AFP) - Northern Ireland's only salmon farm was completely wiped out by a freak jellyfish attack, the owners said Wednesday.
More than 100,000 fish worth more than one million pounds (2.1 million dollars, 1.4 million euros) were killed in the invasion at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, on the County Antrim north-east coast.
"We are still assessing the full extent, but it's a disaster," said John Russell, managing director of Northern Salmon Co. Ltd.
"In 30 years, I've never seen anything like it. It was unprecedented, absolutely amazing. The sea was red with these jellyfish and there was nothing we could do about it, absolutely nothing.
"I have never experienced such concentrations of jellyfish spread over such a wide area. The vastness was unbelievable."
The seven-hour attack over Tuesday and Wednesday last week saw the jellyfish covering a sea area of up to 10 square miles (26 square kilometres) and 35 feet (11 metres) deep.
"It's touch and go if we can survive this," added Russell whose firm supplies salmon worldwide. "It's a disaster."
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Chiloe
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Lee, NH
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Nov 22, 2007 - 10:09am PT
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Jellyfish are on the march, seriously. Global warming and overfishing are their friends.
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couchmaster
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Nov 22, 2007 - 10:36am PT
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Were these those nasty Iranian Jellyfish?
Cause this might finally give your glorious leader a reason to start a war to reclaim the rest of our middle eastern oil so we-all can continue to drive our SUVs all over hell and back.
Can't believe A. Crowley missed this slant!
Locker style edit:
PS, glad I wasn't swimmin in the ocean at the time.
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John Moosie
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2007 - 01:25pm PT
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Actually, Douglas Adams missed it by just a little. Its Jellyfish that will rule the world. George Bush has no chance against a herd of jellyfish.
I just can't get over the fact it was 10 square miles of jellyfish to 35 feet of depth. Thats huge.
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nick d
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nm
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Nov 22, 2007 - 01:53pm PT
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Those who dismiss climate change might note that these are an animal normally found in the Mediterranean. Gotta wonder about them roaming the North Atlantic.
Michael
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Chiloe
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Lee, NH
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Nov 22, 2007 - 01:55pm PT
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A Danish friend I talked with last week remarked that they are invading the Baltic and North Seas, as those have warmed up.
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Chiloe
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Lee, NH
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Nov 22, 2007 - 02:12pm PT
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Marine ecologist Jeremy Jackson (Scripps Institute of Oceanography) has a harrowing vision of the Brave New Ocean:
The biology of the ocean is very rapidly changing state from complex to simple, from 3-dimensional to 2-dimensional, from heterogeneous to homogeneous, from food chains capped by large vertebrates to those capped by small invertebrates, and by explosive increases in microbial biomass. The human drivers are overfishing, pollution, introduced species, aquaculture, and climate change -- probably in that order of importance historically if not actually. Rates of change are accelerating and may be difficult to reverse. The rise of jellyfish and bacteria and demise of animals effectively erase half a billion years of Phanerozoic evolution, taking us back to the latest Precambrian before the explosion of metazoan life. What kinds of species will dominate the ocean? What are the most likely future scenarios, and what are the implications for our use of the oceans and our way of life? Fishers have found good markets for the jellyfish, but not yet for the bacteria. Do we even want to try?
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dipper
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Nov 23, 2007 - 12:08am PT
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When you see salmon on the menu, ask if it is wild. If it is farm raised, or they do not know, order somthing else.
Any of you visiting the Eastern Sierra, be sure to ask chef Matt Toomey at the Mobil (Whoa Neli Deli) this question. Get him to take farmed salmon off the menu.
Vote with your wallet.
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