[quote name='glen' post='7579' date='Oct 25 2006, 12:37 PM']Anyone been catyching any jellyfish lately? I saw this and thought it was interesting. I didn't really think we had enough jelly fish in victoria to bother setting up a commercial fishery but apparently we do! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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That is interesting. I see a lot of different jellyfish while kayaking and diving, I was interested in which particular one the fishery is targetting, so I googled the scientific name - the first thing I found out was that the sceintific name of the jellyfish was misspelt in the initial document, it should have been Catostylus mosaicus. The jellies are the big 'classic' looking jellyfish which are common in PPB at different times of the year. I found the picture below at [url="http://www2.eve.ucdavis.edu/mndawson/tS/Syst/Rhi/C_mosaicus_i.html"]http://www2.eve.ucdavis.edu/mndawson/tS/Sy...mosaicus_i.html[/url], it is of one of these jellies in the Georges river, NSW.
' />[/quote]That is interesting. I see a lot of different jellyfish while kayaking and diving, I was interested in which particular one the fishery is targetting, so I googled the scientific name - the first thing I found out was that the sceintific name of the jellyfish was misspelt in the initial document, it should have been Catostylus mosaicus. The jellies are the big 'classic' looking jellyfish which are common in PPB at different times of the year. I found the picture below at [url="http://www2.eve.ucdavis.edu/mndawson/tS/Syst/Rhi/C_mosaicus_i.html"]http://www2.eve.ucdavis.edu/mndawson/tS/Sy...mosaicus_i.html[/url], it is of one of these jellies in the Georges river, NSW.