Hi all;

The Northern oceans have an explosion of life each spring.  Here in
Newfoundland, jellyfish "blooms" occur this time each year, the normal
action of winds, tides, and weather, bring many species of jellyfish to our
beaches. This is an normal annual event here, not related to any disease
causing organism. I spend a lot of time picking over jellyfish in the spring
summer and fall in order to get to shells on our beaches.

Thomas Clenche
Low tide Crafts
Petley, Random Island, Newfoundland.
(somewhere east of Canada)


>From: Leslie Allen Crnkovic <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Jellyfish Kills
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:51:12 US/CENTRAL
>
>Trade winds blow them west upon the shores of our eastern and Gulf coast,
>along
>with Sargasum, Janthina and a variety of other flotsam & jetsam.
>Leslie
>
>
> > Does anyone know why in Spring there are extremely large killoffs of
> > jellyfish? This is shell related, because we have to step over hundreds
>of
> > jellyfish walking the beach looking for shells.
> >
> > Carol
> >

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