The long period of hot weather in Primorye led to the appearance of huge rhopilema jellyfish near the shores.
“Rhopilema is a big jellyfish which can have a body of half a meter in diameter. Its distinguishing features are a blue colored body and bright red tentacles. Rhopilema are mostly found in the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Scientists have been recording its appearance in the Ussuri Bay and the Amur Bay every year since 1999,” a senior scientist of the Sea Biology Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Maslennikov, said.
According to him, jellyfish began appearing off one of Primorye’s shores after warm currents in the Sea of Japan changed direction. The current brought the jellyfish towards the shore. Fishermen did not miss this gift of nature and began to catch the jellyfish to sell to China and Japan where rhopilema is considered a delicacy.
