MOSCOW, May 31 (RIA Novosti) - For the last 15 years, the Sea of Azov has been flooded with organisms from other seas. One of these creatures is the comb-jelly Mnemiopsis, which has posed a real threat to the sea's biological balance.
According to Assistant Director of the Azov Science Research Institute of Fish Dr. Irina Kornakova, this jellyfish like creature in essence eats away the living organisms in the upper layer of the sea, including caviar and plankton. Losses in fishing alone amounted to between $300-350 million every year.
Russian biologist decided to introduce the com-jelly's predator, the Medusa Jelly Fish (Beroe Ovata), into the sea. But the specialists were left facing a difficult problem: how to combine the mass development of the medusa and the comb-jelly. The bio-technical cultivation of the medusa had to be reworked.
Experts were awarded with one of the highest honors in the last five years from the International Forum for Innovation in Moscow. This method interested not only Azov-Black Sea basin countries, but also other countries facing similar problems of organism imbalance.
