Giant Jellyfish Sink Fishing Trawler – A Japanese fishing trawler hauling in its nets sank when giant jellyfish weighing 400 pounds each capsized the 35-foot vessel.
The fishing trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba, Japan, as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura’s jellyfish.
The giant jellyfish measure six feet in diameter and their numbers have exploded due to a decline in natural predators such as sea turtles and certain species of fish.
The crew of the fishing boat was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized, but the three men were rescued by another trawler.
Relatively little is known about the Nomura’s jellyfish, such as why some years see thousands of the creatures floating across the Sea of Japan on the Tsushima Current, but last year there were virtually no sightings.
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