Jellyfish Take Over Summary

“Imagine this. There are glowing lights all around a ship in the middle of the ocean. An 18th-century sailor would most likely think that a monster was surrounding the ship—ready to ingest it and all the people onboard. Today, we know that the lights come from the phosphorescent glow of jellyfish. Although swarms of jellyfish can be beautiful, they can also be a central part of an ecological disaster in the making.” These sentences are quoted from writer Rosalind Fonem. She wrote about the effects of growing jellyfish population in her story called “Jellyfish Take Over”. The study of jellyfish population does, in fact, make her story true. In seas everywhere, the overpopulation of jellyfish has caused many fishermen to be out of jobs, power to be shut down because of clogged pipes, and fish population to decrease. But recent studies have shown that there is in
This is a problem to people all around the world because we need power to turn on lights, print and copy papers, and do our assignments. Another thing, jellyfish have to eat, right? The blooms of jellyfish eat fish eggs.(Remember:Blooms are large!) This causes and unbalanced ecosystem and decreased fish population which puts many fishermen/ladies out of jobs.
But there is a hero in the sea. A different species of jellyfish called the Bereo jellyfish eats Mnenphis jellyfish(which is the specific problem). There are solutions that we can use to help balance the ecosystem. There is actually a technique called farming jellyfish. They extract salt from areas with overpopulation and turn the jellyfish into a helpful environment tool, mulch. Another solution to this problem is a sea creature called filefish. Filefish is a predator to the jellyfish and increasing the amount of filefish in a overpopulated area would help solve this