Summary: It is not unusual to meet jellyfish swimming in the sea, but this morning, when Mr. Wei and his friends were swimming in the waters near the Bay Bridge, they saw a novel jellyfish that resembled a bottle cap, and it appeared in groups. This makes everyone feel very curious.
This afternoon, in the sea near the Bay Bridge, there are no pieces of jellyfish in sight, but a few can still be fished from the sea. These jellyfish bottle caps are the size of brown discs with bluish-blue villi on all sides. Mr. Wei said he and his friend were found around 6 a.m. this morning and at first thought it was a bottle cap.
It is a clump, not to say that it is a piece, but it is a very large area, at first I thought it was industrial materials, it may be a bottle cap or something, and when I went swimming, I felt that there was a feeling of velvet, and then I went to Baidu to check, saying that it was a jellyfish, which is a thing called a silver coin jellyfish.
——Mr. Wei, a citizen
To Mr. Wei's surprise, people who often work in this area also say that they have never seen this jellyfish.
This kind of thing is still relatively rare, because the boat boss did not tell us that it was a jellyfish in the morning, and he himself said that he had not seen it, and had not seen such a jellyfish.
According to network related information, the circular body of the silver jellyfish center is called "floating capsule body", like a small disk, and the floating capsule body is actually composed of dozens of thin concentric rings and dozens of radiating ribs, the texture is hard, it looks like a silver coin, which is also the origin of the name of the silver coin jellyfish. It lives on the surface of the sea in warm seas, does not have the ability to swim, and can only "go with the flow".
This afternoon, the staff of the Municipal Marine and Fisheries Environmental Monitoring Station also came to the scene to inspect and take jellyfish samples back for testing. According to their preliminary judgment, these jellyfish are silver jellyfish, which have never appeared in the Shantou sea before.
Its large number is also related to human activities, such as eutrophication of water bodies, such as the reduction of some fish in it, which will cause changes in various organisms. There is also a relationship like these, such as some natural temperatures, light, and some seasonal relationships that cause a large number of these jellyfish to erupt and gather.
——Cai Shaolian, director of Shantou Marine and Fishery Environment Monitoring Station
As for whether these jellyfish are poisonous, it has not been proven at this time.
From our current situation, there is no evidence that this jellyfish is toxic.
Whether the silver jellyfish is poisonous or not has yet to be further tested by the monitoring station. However, professionals also remind the public that there are many kinds of jellyfish, some of which are toxic, and if you encounter jellyfish when swimming, you should not easily approach it.