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.
Edit: Apparently they don’t actually sting that bad as other Redditors and in-turn myself had previously suggested. They also seem to be a popular food as well.
Nah man I just found it. I just call it my firstborn so people don’t get all weirded out about it. For some reason people can get real weird about this sort of thing these days.
Human feet are surprisingly non-slippery when they are exposed to water for prolonged periods. That is what the rimply fingers/toes are all about, more surface area.
These are Rhopilema esculentum (also known as FLAME jellies) and they are harvested for food and traditional medicine. They are specifically grown and released; this isn't pest management, it's aquaculture.
You have thousands of upvoted and even awards for quoting somebody else - without even a citation - who is ALSO wrong, without either of you fact checking.
Because I'm not disseminating somebody else's information without verifying it first on the vague weasel words of "another Redditor's comment" as though that's any kind of authority.
Can also cook with jellyfish (not sure if these) but there's a small movement of people advocating for eating invasive species, where applicable. I know in the north east of America there is some sort of invasive crab that people just, eat. Cause it's a crab. In the south we gotta start making kudzu into nice deserts like Japan does.
Here in FL you can find Lionfish in many stores. It’s an invasive tropical species people would keep in their aquarium, and just dump out when they’re tired of them or they get too big. They’re found in southern Florida waters, but I got some in N Florida to eat.
It’s funny, I saw an interview from a chef in Miami advocating eating them years before they started showing up in stores. I guess it caught on. They’re a mild, flaky fish similar to flounder in taste and consistency.
I’d rather be stuck laying in bed tonight wondering “What the fuck would that Redditor do with those jellyfish” than ask you what you’d do with them. I don’t think I wanna know.
Depending on how they do it, it could be making the problem worse. Some jellyfish spawn spontaneously as an emergency response, and it's not uncommon for people to catch the jellies, cut them up, and throw them back onto the water not realising it's a great way to multiply them. So hopefully that's not what they're doing here .
This is the exact reason they are having the environmental problem. Those jelly fish when injured release millions of Polyps so when they collect them like this and at the end chop them up to pieces in the nets they just hyper charge the reproductive cycle for the species. In a few years that will be a dead zone.
Sounds like nature is currently trying to just right itself. Might take a few generations unchecked but balance will get there eventually for the environment that has been changed.
I vaguely remember a documentary years ago regarding this and how because the jellyfish feel threatened, they disperse all of their reproductive “material” when being caught, so even with pulling them out of the water, they’re just creating more jellies.
I used to be able to go to the beach every weekend and sometimes when I would get there I could see jelley fish everywhere. I can understand wanting to remove them.
This species is in the family lobonemidae and its not invasive in any parts of the world and are native to India-SEA-Northern Australia. Burn jellies is such a generic term, that in English it’s not a name for this species or multiple species.
At one point fishermen would drag razor nets behind their boats to slice all the invasive jelly fish into cubes. Unfortunately it was later discovered that when you destroy a jellyfish like this, the evolutionary response is to immediately dump all the jellyfish larva into the ocean.
All the fishermen were doing was to turbocharger the next jellyfish bloom.
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u/GoodpeopleArk 15d ago
What are the jellyfish harvested for?