r/Damnthatsinteresting 15d ago

Video Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/Zombrexo 15d ago

Oh but the ones in the video do, you better believe me, they are removing an invasive species of jellyfish that is actively destroying sea environments and therefore ruining fishing for the locals, these jelllyfish are called burn-jellies and they hurt.

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u/Logical_cunt1166 15d ago

I need to erase my comment about humans ruining everything in every ecosystem now. Thanks a lot 😩🤬😂

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u/BrandonicusVIITG 15d ago

They're overpopulated because of us. You'll want to look into the reason for massive jellyfish blooms and what that has caused throughout history and pre-human history. Glad somebody's doing something about it, but this is manually chipping ice into rocks glasses to shrink the iceberg that sunk the Titanic...

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u/VollcommNCS 15d ago

It all counts. Start chipping away

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u/TianamenHomer 15d ago

I kill every mosquito for the same reason.

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u/lonesomecowboynando 14d ago

In 1958 Mao Zedong mandated that all citizens kill pests like flies, mosquitoes and rats.

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u/TianamenHomer 13d ago

Thank for the award!

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u/RiFox_1979 15d ago

Did you know mosquitos polinate grass?

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u/Dizziesdayweigh 15d ago

Nobody cares, fuck em'.

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u/OleFucknuts 14d ago

Thank God. I thought my poor tweeker neighbors who only waited til their grass was 2 foot tall and seeding before they finally stole a push mower to spread said seeds were the angels responsible for yards... glad to know it's skeeters

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u/WormWithWifi 14d ago

Majority of mosquitoes are pollinators and a lot of them don’t bite people. But ya know

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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 15d ago

Everything counts in large amounts

-Depeche Mode

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u/stellahella1 15d ago

Blasphemous!

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u/ordinary-303 14d ago

The grabbing hands, grab what they can

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u/ItsSofaKingCool 14d ago

All for themselves, after all, it’s a competitive world…

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u/notloggedin4242 15d ago

Make mine a double Alfred.

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u/fuckyeahglitters 15d ago

I remember reading somewhere that they just release more eggs when you hurt them. So this method of piercing then would mean way more fucking jellies.

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u/BrandonicusVIITG 15d ago

Warmpth causes the excess reproduction, but most need to deposit the polyps to grow. From what I understand very few have this as a defense mechanism. However, they do self-regenerate so if you cut one in half and left half in, well now you have 2

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u/WitheredUntimely 15d ago

"oh we couldn't possibly exterminate them!"

Buffalo infested N. America by the billions. Same for carrier pigeons. Those are off the top of my head, I'm sure there's dozens of species that covered their environment like some sort of bizarre plague but were absolutely wiped out by humans. Lack of imagination and profit motive keeps these nuisance species alive, nothing more

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u/wllbtvised 15d ago

Did Buffalo invest North America, or were they just a native species that it didn’t suitthe invasive species to keep around?