Nomura Jellyfish, Annoying Dicks of the Ocean

Nomura's Jellyfish

So, these jellyfish are annoying and huge. Around 6 feet in diameter and weigh around 200 pounds, and they flood seas, overkill some fish and fill fishing nets with hundreds of themselves, while taking up obscene amounts of space and creating dead zones where fish cannot breed or return to.

The only creatures that are known to eat jellyfish are sea turtles and some sunfish, but I doubt they can comfortably eat an Nomura Jelly. There is nothing out there that can naturally kill them, since they can thrive in chemical filled waters (such as runoff from chemical plants, since they can absorb the minerals and nutrients there, and can survive long periods with a lack of oxygen.

You cannot kill them by hand, because as a natural reaction to excessive pain, they will release their eggs/sperm (around a million per Jellyfish) into the waters, and after they are fertilized they will be able to turn into little organisms at the bottom of the ocean that produce giant clouds of Nomura Jellyfish, that will grow into their gigantic size again. Any changes in the water temperature, salinity, current or plankton/phytoplankton minerals will trigger these little organisms to start producing giant clouds of mini-jellyfish.

How would you get rid of an organism that you cannot poison, cannot suffocate, releases the next possible generation upon death, and appear in massive numbers?

Freeze them and use a Missile.

I kill myself and be done with it.

I can't find the article, but a year or so ago a Japanese fishing boat netted an entire group of the suckers. While trying to reel in their nets, the boat capsized and subsequently sank.

Luckily enough, from what I recall they're edible, if not particularly palatable.

Nomura Jellyfish?

If the plankton level changes, they release thousands of final mixes that never make it to America.

There's only one creature Badass enough to save us.

This-a-guy.

Bad news: Mantis shrimp are less than seven inches long.

Nature is so amazing that sometimes I get afraid that someone is going to tell me "sorry, this is all a lie".

Kill It with Fire. Although I can see the whole water thing might be a problem there.

See, humans? This is what happens when you mess up with the delicate balance of the ecosystem. Global warming increases the temperature of the seawater and overfishing creates a suitable ecological niche, and BAM! Giant jellyfish everywhere! It's your own damn faul, too, so suck it up and deal with the consequences of your actions.

I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords. Just be glad they have't learned how to fly and survive out of water...Yet.

Not enough belts and zippers.

The solution is to make them into candy which is then launched into space.

Go Japan. GO. YOU CAN EAT SEA FOOD LIKE NOBODY ELSE. MAKE THOSE JELLYFISH YOUR BITCH.

Yet. Pretty soon not even the Japanese will be able to penetrate the mass of zippers to get at the delicious jellyfish space candy.

edited 28th Mar '11 11:23:56 AM by Pykrete

You fish them, you take them out of the water, they eventually drown without water, preferably in a landfill. The sailors made the mistake of slicing the ones they find to pieces and throwing them back in the water, which just caused them to reproduce, but that mistake has been made countless times before with sea stars, muscles, worms and the like. Exterminating invertebrates tends to be a little different than something like fish but someone serious enough and knowledgeable enough can them kill off. The Modern world has the resources, just apply them.

God, those things didn't get in any cities during the flood did they?

edited 29th Mar '11 1:35:22 PM by Cider

Do jellyfish really reproduce that way? I thought it was only starfish.

These ones apparently release their SATAN SPAWN when subject to great pain. Being cut up sounds like it'd trigger that reaction.

Nuke them from orbit.

Attach 2 speedboats to it and make them speed off in opposite directions. That should do the trick.

That would just make them spawn more jellyfish.

It would be funny to see a sea turtle try and eat one, though. NOM NOM NOM. They'd be there for hours.

Drop a nuke into the water

x10 Soon we will have Superfast Jellyfish, amirite? Except the overhunting part.

600 million years later and these guys are still kicking our pathetic bilaterian asses. ;P