Who wants jellyfish for dinner?  Image credit:   It's been said
that as wild and readily-available supplies of everyday market
fish like salmon, cod and halibut are depleted -- and the upper
reaches of the marine food chain is removed -- we'll have to
start eating our way down the food chain. It doesn't get much
lower than jellyfish (already a delicacy in certain parts of
Asia), which are becoming more and more plentiful as their
predators disappear and excess nutrients from agricultural
runoff makes it way into the oceans. Turns out that jellyfish
explosions are becoming an epidemic in the Black Sea, ever since
the mackerel population was overfished in the 1960s and 70s; now
jellies can multiply with unchecked abandon, fed by animal waste
and fertilizer runoff from farms. Thanks to EnglishRussia for
the gross pictures:  June 15, 2007 - 3:23am submit to reddit