Japan grapples with invasion of giant jellyfish By Isabel Reynolds

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By Isabel Reynolds
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A slimy jellyfish weighing as much as a sumo wrestler has Japan's fishing industry in the grip of its poisonous tentacles.

Vast numbers of Echizen kurage, or Nomura's jellyfish, have appeared around Japan's coast since July, clogging and ripping fishing nets and forcing fishermen to spend hours hacking them apart before bringing home their reduced catches.

Representatives of fishing communities around the country gathered in Tokyo on Thursday, hoping to thrash out solutions to a pest that has spread from the Japan Sea to the Pacific coast.

"It's a terrible problem. They're like aliens," Noriyuki Kani of the fisheries federation in Toyama, northwest of Tokyo, told Reuters ahead of the conference.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/sc_nm/environment_japan_jellyfish_dc

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1. Nature's revenge for overfishing, pollution,

and other abuses of our mother earth.

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2. Mother of God! Those ARE big jellyfish:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20021031b3.htm

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3. Gojira!

I wonder if the tentacles have some kind of nuclear fire sting?