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Nomura Jellyfish
Nomura Jellyfish are large Jelly fish that reside in the Yellow sea and live between China and Japan. They can grow to be over 6 feet in height and reach weights of over 400 pounds.
WASHINGTON (WUSA) Move over snakeheads - there's something much scarier invading the waters off Japan. Japanese fishermen are hauling up nets loaded with giant jellyfish. Vast numbers of Echizen jellyfish have appeared on Japan's Pacific coast ...
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Dozens of giant Nomura jellyfish along the eastern coast of Japan capsized the 10-ton fishing trawler, known as the Diasan Shinsho-maru.
According to news sources, the incident occurred when three fishermen attempted to haul in a net containing dozens of these enormous jellyfish, which weigh as much as 440 pounds and can grow up to 6 [...]
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From weirdasianews.com
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The 600-pound jellyfish threaten Japan's fishing industry.
Pacific Ocean - Asia - Japan - Fishing industry - Society and Culture
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From my.abcnews.go.com
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They came from the deep – swarms of giant jellyfish that can sink trawlers and strike fear into the hearts of fishermen. Growing to almost 7 feet wide, weighing a sumo-sized 450lb (200kg), and armed with stinging tentacles, Echizen kurage sound like the stuff of Japanese sci-fi, yet their threat is...
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From environmentalgraffiti.com
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/6483758/Japanese-fishing-trawler-sunk-by-giant-jellyfish.html By Julian Ryall in Tokyo The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish. Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200...
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From pacificariptide.com
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Recent internet chatter about the invasion by giant Nomura jellyfish evokes memories of Gerald Schatten, the one-time collaborator of stem cell fraudster Hwang Woo Suk, whose [Schatten's] earlier claim to fame had been creation of the first monkey to contain DNA from another animal — in this case a jellyfish.IPBiz had earlier noted Schatten's difficulties with the USPTO on his Hwang-era patent application. Just last month (28 Oct. 09...
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From blogger.com
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Hearing fishermen's pleas, Uye, who had been studying zooplankton, became obsessed with the little-studied Nomura's jellyfish, scientifically known as Nemopilema nomurai, which at its biggest looks like a giant mushroom trailing dozens of noodle-like ...
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From search.live.com
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Huge swarms of giant jellyfish are invading the waters along Japan's Pacific coast, putting the fishing industry in jeopardy. Most of the mammoth jellyfish weigh up to 600 pounds and are nearly seven feet long. Japan's fishing industry said the sea ...
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From search.msn.com
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Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish – Telegraph — I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords.
A 10-ton fishing boat has been sunk by gigantic jellyfish off eastern Japan.
The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura’s jellyfish.
Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been inundated with the...
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From dvorak.org
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We aimed to study the effects of the intra-articular injection of jellyfish mucin (qniumucin) on articular cartilage degeneration in a model of osteoarthritis (OA) created in rabbit knees by the resection of the anterior cruciate ligament.Qniumucin was extracted from Aurelia aurita (moon jellyfish) and Stomolophus nomurai (Nomura's jellyfish) and purified by ion exchange chromatography. The OA model used 36 knees in 18 Japanese...
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From biomedcentral.com
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