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Jellyfish on menu soon

───   10:52 Sun, 13 Aug 2017

Jellyfish on menu soon | News Article

London - If you can't beat them, eat them. This is the view of Italian marine biologist Silvio Greco, who is tackling escalating jellyfish numbers in the Mediterranean.


BBC reports there are at least four times as many jellyfish in the Mediterranean now as there were in 2004, with global climate change, pollution, and overfishing mostly to blame. 

Now, according to Greco, man must be the new predator of jellyfish and he's promoting this campaign at the Slow Fish festival in Genoa by having visitors try various jellyfish delicacies. 

And, it's an idea the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation is encouraging too. For years, fishermen have been finding their nets increasingly burdened with unwanted jellyfish that they simply throw back into the sea. 

Greco hopes this will change and says that sustainability aside, jellyfish is actually good for you: rich in protein and collagen, low in calories, and fat-free.

BBC



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