Unusual heavy landings of jellyfish Crambionella stulhamani (Chun) andudprocessing methods at Pulicat landing centre, Chennai

摘要

Jellyfish exist in all oceans across the world.udThey exist from the surface of the water to the veryuddepths of the ocean. Jellyfish are free-swimmingudplanktonic carnivores. There are about 1000-1500udknown species of jellyfish and new ones are beinguddiscovered everyday. This is surprising as jellyfishudare amongst the oldest living creatures in the worldudand have been in existence before the dinosaurs.