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| Jellyfish attack wipes out North Ireland salmon farm |
| 2007-11-24 |
| DUBLIN (Reuters) - Jellyfish wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, with more than 1 million pounds' ($2.06 million) worth of stock massacred in the attack. I blame Darth Cheney The jellyfish, covering an area of around 10 square miles , engulfed the Northern Salmon Company's cages off the province's northeastern coast, suffocating 100,000 fish, the firm's Managing Director, John Russell, told Reuters on Thursday. Ahhh... suffocation! It must have been Joooooos! "It was sheer devastation -- I've been 30 years in the salmon industry and I've never seen anything like it," Russell said. That's because you have never been up against the US 'War On Salmon™' Staff on their way to give the fish their morning feed noticed a "reddish-brown tinge" to the sea and then realized the boats were struggling to make headway through an expanse of jellyfish up to 35 feet deep, Russell said. Halburton hasn't been able to make our jellyfish invisible yet "A few hours later all our salmon were dead, the bulk of them suffocated." Bwa ha ha ha ha The attack, by a type of jellyfish known as a "mauve stinger", happened late last week off the coast of County Antrim, an area popular with tourists. This was just a test run The mauve stinger, noted for its purplish night-time glow, is more commonly found in warmer Mediterranean waters. Global warming... Russell said the occurrence, when jellyfish "bloom" in such quantities, only happened every decade or so and last week's appearance off the Irish coast was also due to unusual environmental factors including higher-than-normal water temperatures. Alert Al Gore! Stat! If he comes, then it will snow and the 'jellyfish-with-lasers-mounted-on-their- heads will retreat in frustration and dispair... |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #6 McZoid did use one of the words I find so useful, apparently. ;-) The odds are high around hereof someone knowing more on any subject imaginable.. and its happened once again in this thread. Thank you for sharing your expertise, Tholush Squank4616 and Mountain Penis5653. But Tholush Squank4616, I discovered the hard way that the convention is that typing in all capitals is seen as shouting. Please don't, any more. I promise we'll pay attention, since you started so sensibly and knowledgeably. And welcome to you both, and the other new names I've seen here recently. It's so nice when new Rantburgers join the conversation! :-D |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-11-24 21:59 |
| #5 Dude... you don't have to shout. Dude...yes he does. Tuna are a pelagic species, and found in all temperatures of water. McNozzle of Douche was spouting off...again...about something he doesn't know anything about. |
| Posted by: Mountain Penis5653 2007-11-24 12:18 |
| #4 Dude... you don't have to shout. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2007-11-24 12:03 |
| #3 LIVING, AS I HAVE, IN OREGON SOME 60 ODD YEARS, I KNOW WE HAVE HAD A TUNA FUSHERY OFF OUR COAST FOR MANY YEARS. VANCOUVER ISLE IS NOT SO FAR NORTH OF US. SOMETIMES THAT PESKY GLOBAL WARMING IS OLDER THAN IT SEEMS. SO SAYETH AN OLD CODGER! |
| Posted by: Tholush Squank4616 2007-11-24 10:41 |
| #2 I prefer open sea fish. Farmed fish are subject to flea infestations, and viral attacks. Fatty fish, like salmon, also lose some of the fat, which contributes to its flavor. As for northern sightings of otherwise tropical fish, tuna has been found of Vancouver Island, Canada. Apparently, that hasn't happened before. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-11-24 08:04 |
| #1 The attack, by a type of jellyfish known as a "mauve stinger", happened late last week off the coast of County Antrim, an area popular with tourists. sounds like a gay jellyfish attack... egads & ewww! |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-11-24 04:22 |