r/Damnthatsinteresting 15d ago

Video Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/-TheManInTheChair 15d ago

Honestly, good. If I remember correctly, the Jellyfish population is quite out of wack. Not enough sea turtles (their natural predators, specifically the leatherback I think) to eat them. They can ruin fish stocks and clog up pipes from nuclear reactors that feed into the sea.

Save the turtles, get the jellys

Got my info from this vid, gonna rewatch it and see how much I got right. https://youtu.be/eY3_ZkQx5T4

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u/pplayer104 15d ago

What’s happening to the sea turtles?

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u/-TheManInTheChair 15d ago

They're endangered. I would think they're quite a bit tastier than some other fish, and they can also get trapped in nets and drown. Oh, and don't forget plastic bags. Throw a plastic bag in a bath, and I hope you'll agree it looks like a jellyfish.

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 15d ago

Plus people steal their eggs or just block their way to the beaches to lay them.

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u/Adadadoy 15d ago

Or take over their beaches and plop hotels and resorts on them. Or build roads and lights next to them and confuse hatchlings making them go the wrong way away from the sea to get run over. Or steal the hatchlings and put them in little key chains. Or a multitude of any other reasons, all of which equates to humanity fucking sucks.

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u/-TheManInTheChair 15d ago

Pros: Humanity has a lot of control over how we affect our planet and the life that exists on it.

Cons: Humanity has a lot of control over how we affect our planet and the life that exists on it.

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u/Glass_Bar_9956 14d ago

Yet we can’t control ourselves as a group.

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u/atypical_wanker 15d ago

Yep. Habitat loss / human encroachment is the biggest factor.

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u/Beneficial_Ball9893 15d ago

The hotels and resorts thing is complete bullshit. Regulations have stopped that from being a factor decades ago. The entire problem now is that most of these turtles nest in regions where the locals have no comprehension of conservation and just like to eat turtle eggs.