Growing problem: Jellyfish in a display tank in a German marine research facility. Over-fishing and global warming are said to be the causes for the boost in numbers of the venomous sea creature. Kellie Ann Grubbs (left) and Zeke Krautwurst measure wooden pallets that will form the wall of a small goat barn. Collective farming: Logan Halley-Winsett (left) and Leah Wilks cut a length of wire fencing for a goat pen at Okfuskee Farms in Siler City, North Carolina, United States. Both are part of a group of friends who came together to help build a small barn for goats on the farm. - AFP
SCIENTISTS across the Mediterranean say a surge in the number of jellyfish this year threatens not just the biodiversity of one of the world’s most over-fished seas but also the health of tens of thousands of summer tourists.
“I flew along a 300km stretch of coastline on April 21 and saw millions of jellyfish,” said Prof Stefano Piraino of Salento University in southern Italy. Piraino is the head of a Mediterranean-wide project to track the rise in the number of jellyfish as global warming and over-fishing clear the way for them to prosper.
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