Gigantic jellyfish blob kills 100,000 salmon

The "Mauve Stinger" A gigantic blob of jellyfish wiped out a salmon farm in Ireland this week.  Billions of jellyfish of the species  Pelagia nocticula (aka the "mauve stinger") congregated in a 10 square mile by 35 foot deep blanket and floated over two net pens off the coast of the Glens of Antrim, north of Belfast.  Over 100,000 salmon were killed.  These jellyfish normally keep to the Mediterranean.  Warming ocean temperature is considered a likely cause. Here's the full story from CNN Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 854 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (1) Subscribe to this comment's feed ... written by kg , October 02, 2008 such a beautiful thing yet so deadly.. amazing report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0 Write comment Name Email Comment smaller | bigger I have read and agree to the Terms of Usage. Write the displayed characters Add Comment

 

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