Sunday, December 21, 2008

Jellyfish: New Denizens of the Deep?

It appears even sharks and whales and ships and ocean cooled nuclear power plants are now in jeapordy worldwide because of the incredible proliferation of all kinds of jellyfish now all over the oceans of earth. There is nothing to bring down their numbers. Most fish have been so overfished that the balance of nature in the oceans may be temporarily or permanently ended. Fishing itself may soon be over within 50 years because there will be nothing at all left to fish.

The tipping point likely has been reached and there may be no known way back for fish except maybe outlawing all ocean fishing on earth for 10 to 20 years worldwide. Otherwise, likely it is the end of all fish species because nothing will live fishwise over about 5 inches long soon because the tenticles of jellyfish are killing so many of them now.

There has to be enough adult fish to eat all the baby jellyfish to keep down their numbers in all areas of the oceans. Any one area with not enough fish creates such a breeding ground for jellyfish that the currents will take them every other place eventually.

The only way I can presently see to bring fish back into most of the oceans of earth is to stop fishing for up to 50 years. However, because of the present world economic calamity I don't see this as realistically enforcible. Therefore, I would have to say that at least for now it is the end of fish in the oceans at least until the end of the present economic downturn!

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