Nomura’s jellyfish is a very large Japanese jellyfish. It is in the same size class as the lion’s mane jellyfish, the largest cnidarian in the world. The diameter of these jellyfish is slightly greater than the height of an average fully grown man.
It grows 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches) in diameter and weighing up to 220 kg (about 450 pounds), Nomura’s jellyfish live principally in the waters between China and Japan, mainly in the central Yellow Sea and East China Sea.
Nomura’s jellyfish has plagued the seas of Japan from 2005 up to the present. The unintentional attacks brought by this kind of creatures have severed the fishing industries of the affected regions in Japan as well as the balanced food chains in the seas.
Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish, A 10-ton fishing boat has been sunk by gigantic jellyfish off eastern Japan. Trawler, Diasan Shinsho-Maru, was killed off Chiba “the three-person crew and tried to trip a net containing dozens of huge Nomura’s jellyfish.
Each jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg, and the waters around Japan, has been flooded with creatures of this year. Experts believe, the weather and water conditions for the growth of the coast of China, it is ideal for jellyfish in recent months.
The crew of the fishing vessel were thrown into the sea when the ship crashed, three men were rescued but another trawler the Mainichi newspaper. The local Coast Guard office announced that the weather was clear and the sea was calm about the accident.
The last time Japan took a very large, in the summer of 2005, jellyfish nets damaged, rendered the fish inedible to poisonous bites, and even cause injury to the fishermen.
Relatively little is known about Nomura’s jellyfish, such as why some years see thousands of creatures floating in the sea over the Japanese Tsushima Current, but last year there was virtually no sightings. In 2007 were 15,500 reports of damage to fishing equipment, from creatures.
Here’s a video of the famous Nomura’s jellyfish “echizen kurage”:
Experts believe that the major factor driving more and more visitors are jellyfish in the waters of Japan may decline predators, including sea turtles and certain species of fish. Source 1,2,3
those are huge!
Rough translation of the text——though GORGEOUS & SUBLIME, nonetheless.
The first photograph is so beautiful; it’s mind-melding, really.
In fact, the sentence immediately following the image——”Nomura’s jellyfish
[have] plagued the seas of Japan…”——begs the question: ultimately, *whom* is the intruder within its natural habitat?
“Whom the Intruder within its natural habitat”?
The reason why the Nomura plagues the seas is that for some reason its population has exploded far beyond what it normal has been for centuries. There is nothing NATURAL about it. One could argue it’s man made meddling, who knows, but that is not inaccurate to call them a ‘plague’.
the chinese caused that plague of them in a large inlet were the ocean meets china there is so much waste there no fish can live but jelllyfish can. these jelllyfish pollups which are small plant looking things that form jellyfish ussually do not form for years but with the changes in the water caused by polution they become jellyfish in huge ammounts now. the chinese and japanese think they are smart by killing them useing large knifes to cut them up so they can thin out there numbers but they are makeing it worse. these jellyfish as a final instink when they die release all there sperm and eggs into the water so all these japanese and chinese people are doing is makeing a big problem worse becuse these jellyfish are whippeing out fish numbers in the ocean around that area and with the huge ammounts of them there probably not gana stay around there for long