Chinese people don’t know about Japan’s giant jellyfish problem

“Mezamashi TV” investigates the giant jellyfish invasion taking place in the Sea of Japan:

The jellyfish originate in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. No one is entirely sure of why the giant jellyfish population is increasing, but it has been argued that global warming or Chinese pollution has killed off some of their natural predators, allowing them to grow to an enormous size before leaving Chinese waters and heading into the Sea of Japan.

Their reporter took the streets of Qingdao to ask Chinese people about their views on giant jellyfish. Nobody seemed to know about the problem facing Japanese fishermen:

The report hints at a solution: using the jellyfish as a food instead of treating them like worthless pests. Jellyfish cookies are mentioned as one type of food. A new post over at Pink Tentacle reveals that high school students in the town of Obama have also created jellyfish caramels.

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radical pikachu

Interesting question to ask Qingdao people about problems facing Japanese fishermen. Other suggestion questions could be: what American astronauts eat for lunch? What kind of songs German farmers sing ? or what board games play Russian railway workers ?

http://mopedronin.tumblr.com Made in DNA

As you are probably quite aware radicl pikachu, the Chinese have a program to train giant jelly fish to seek out and kamikaze Japanese fishing nets. Perhaps you shouldn’t be so hasty in your assessment of the situation.

All joking aside, I concur sir. Typcial Japanese media: instead of focusing on the problem and possible solution, focusing on who might be out to “get” Japan.

BS

National Geographic did a documentary about the rising jellyfish problem.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3092/Overview

Part of the reason is the fishermen cutting them up to kill them, but they wind up just regenerating into more.

And everyone knows that astronauts eat freeze-dried ice cream.
weirdo

まだまだだね
steve

Jellyfish are increasing in all ocean as far as I know. Part of it is overfishing of predators that eat jellyfish, part of it is increased food for jellyfish from warmer waters. In coastal areas like off China, increasing nutrification is probably also resulting in blooms.

NPR has a podcast with Kaneo Fukuda a guy serving up jellyfish.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100185758

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This 10 year old article and the New York Times write up that I put in the comments section of my efficiency post basically describe what is happening. We’ve overfished the desirable critters and are moving our way down. The lead scientists in this study basically predicted this would be happening and said at some point we’ll hit the bottom.

steve

meant to say just nutrification (no increasing) – as in from run off… phosphorous, nitrogen…

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They look disgusting, shoot them till all of them are gone.
Awar

Why won’t the Chinese help the Japanese by eating them all?
http://www.binary-apotheosis.com/blogs/index.php Rob A

Japan has a Giant Jellyfish problem? Guess the Chinese aren’t the only ones who don’t know.

Stereo

In every spring, these jellyfish are born in the Yellow Sea. In summer, they come to the Sea of Japan growing enormously bigger in size. They all die in winter.

So rational solution is to clean up the Yellow Sea in spring while the jellyfish is still small. That is what Chinese are supposed to do.

matt

Catch the damned things and sell them back to China!
gao

this has appeared in Chinese net sphere. Guest what the netizens say? … eat them.

then comes some experts say these jellyfish don’t taste good.

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

Some spices should be able to fix that.

Marty

Does anyone know Kaneo Fukuda’s contact information?

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