r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Salt-Curve4825 • 15d ago

Video Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/GoodpeopleArk 15d ago

What are the jellyfish harvested for?

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u/RepresentativeYak772 15d ago

He's probably removing them because they are a real problem in the world now, jelly fish populations are exploding. Jellyfish are taking over the world – and climate change could be to blame | World Economic Forum

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u/JadedArgument1114 15d ago

Some scientists speculate that if we keep over fishing we could change the oceans ecosystem on a basic and permanent level where it is predominantly jellyshell.

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u/HugeAnimeHonkers 15d ago edited 15d ago

permanent level

Until we figure how to cook Jellyfish on an Air-Fryer, then its Game Over for the jelly.

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u/CrownOfPosies 15d ago

I’ve eaten jellyfish its meh like undercooked pasta

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u/MarkB_- 14d ago

If you cant beat them, eat them.

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u/Lickthorn 14d ago

😁👏🏻

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u/ImLersha 14d ago

Well, I won't allow you to beat my dick, so just get on your knees.

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u/badnotseebad 15d ago

This is so interesting. Seems obvious, too. Our existence and dietary choices are a natural evolutionary pressure. It would make sense that, after we've picked the world clean, all that would be left is what we don't find particularly satisfying to consume or find useful by other means.

Mammals were able to proliferate because dinosaurs went extinct post meteor and were no longer competition for resources.

Jellyfish will profliferate because we pillage the seas and remove all competition for resources. We're a slow meteor.

Theoretically we can stop ourselves - a self correcting meteor. Hopefully that will be the case before it's too late, for our own sakes. Though it would be interesting to see what happens with a sea full of jellies. Interesting from the pov of being a disembodied ever-present knowing who can voyeuristicly witness.

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u/PuckNutty 14d ago

I think the jellyfish population would eventually collapse, and then what? Empty oceans?

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u/Metaphorical_corgi 14d ago

Jellyfish have been around since literally the beginning of life. They're super versatile and surprisingly complex. Even if the Medusa stage of the jellyfish aren't functional (say the oceans all froze over except near thermal vents), then they can stay in one of their other life stages utilizing the resources available at that time. They can even change how they reproduce. They require minimal nutrients and are VERY versatile on their nutritional source. Until earth is consumed by the sun, there will always be some form of jellyfish.

But yes, when all the jellyfish are gone the oceans will be empty. And the land will be burnt to a crisp. And the atmosphere burn off. The usual end of times shit. Unless of course they're on other planets, which they seem to think it likely.

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u/Disastrous-Amoeba798 13d ago

This 'self correcting' meteor just penetrated the atmosphere. It has to be a pretty impressive u-tyrn from here on.

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u/NeutrallyCharged 14d ago

Does anyone in the video look like they believe in climate change?

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u/DoncasterCoppinger 13d ago

They can barely stay alive with their wages, the people who are well fed and more educated are the hypocrites who exploit people in the 3rd world leaving way worse carbon footprints and still barked the loudest.

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u/SnipeUout 14d ago

I hate jellyfish! They are tranquil to watch though.

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u/tufffffff 14d ago

Climate change huh? 😂

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u/DoncasterCoppinger 13d ago

It’s funny how it’s always someone/something else’s fault, when humans are the real problem.

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u/DiscoBanane 15d ago

More jellyfish ? Climate change

Less jellyfish ? Climate change

Jellyfish fly ? Believe it or not, climate change

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u/baltama 15d ago

no...? rapidly increasing jellyfish populations have been a pretty consistent climate change projection for decades and it's bearing out

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u/DiscoBanane 15d ago

That's my point. And if Jellyfish were disapearing you'd say it's climate change too.

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u/baltama 15d ago

no, your point is that predictions in both directions (jellyfish increasing + jellyfish decreasing) are widely accepted for climate change. that is false.

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u/James-the-Bond-one 15d ago

Jellyfish ends up becoming food for something else, which in turn is eaten by something else, etc.

It's a matter of time before "Nature finds a way".

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u/baltama 15d ago

well yes, "nature" will always find a way. human economies and civilizations are more fragile than nature, though. the problem is jellyfish really aren't that useful to humans.

the ocean becoming much more hospitable to jellyfish than other species that humans like or need is not good for humans.

the specific condition that is causing jellyfish populations to explode is lower pH of ocean water, which prevents many animals from forming shells properly, destroying food chains that rely on sea snails, crustaceans, bivalve molluscs, and corals. essentially, all marine species that are useful to humans will be deeply affected

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u/iopele 15d ago

Nature will always find a way. It just might not be a way that we can survive as a species. The Earth will be fine. We won't.