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Giant jellyfish invade Japanese coast 10-31-02 Hordes of giant jellyfish weighing more than 100 kilograms each have been washing up along a large stretch of Japan's coastline. Local government officials say the jellyfish have clogged fishnets and spoiled valuable commercial catches of squid and yellowtail. The hardest hit areas are the Sea of Japan coasts of Fukui and Shimane prefectures in western Japan. Swarms of Echizen jellyfish, also known as Nomura's jellyfish, have been turning up since late August and the situation worsened in September, a fishing official at the Fukui prefectural government said. "When you have 100-200 huge jellyfish in a fixed net measuring 20 metres by 30 metres, it is hard to spot the fish," the official said. The biggest jellyfish measure about one metre in diameter and weigh more than 100 kilograms each, although Nomura's jellyfish can grow as large as two metres. About 1,000 Nomura's jellyfish have been trapped in one net in the worst cases. The jellyfish are taken out of the nets and returned alive to the sea but sometimes they are caught in other nets. Fishermen "were initially chopping them up", the official said, but added it turned out to be impossible because of their huge numbers. "They are also too heavy to lift up onto boats" to take away for disposal, the official said. An official from the Shimane prefecture says jellyfish stings make getting rid of them tough work. "They are poisonous ... you have a rash or itchy skin after being stung although the symptoms are not so serious," the official said. The jellyfish is also damaging the commercial value of squid caught in nets: by changing their colour, they appear less fresh, he added. The official says warmer sea water this year might have contributed to the giant jellyfish population explosion.Water temperatures were also higher this year than the average temperatures in 1958 and 1995, when Nomura's jellyfish were also observed in large numbers, he said. Larger inflows of the warm Tsushima Current into the Sea of Japan may have also brought a large number of Nomura's jellyfish from the East China Sea, the official said.He said they would die as the water turned cooler with the approach of winter.