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Jellyfish? Do you want a cornet or a wafer?
PETER FROST wonders how long it will be before British holidaymakers are eating jellyfish ice cream
Mauve stinger jellyfish [Hans Hillewaert/Creative Commons]

THE exceptional storms over Christmas and New Year have seen a rapid increase in jellyfish blooms around our coast and it isn’t just along the British coast. Jellyfish numbers have also reached a worrying high in the Mediterranean.

It seems jellyfish numbers are increasing all over the globe and the scale of the population increase is both impressive and worrying.

One leading Italian marine biologist is urging us to start eating jellyfish both to reduce numbers and to give us a new cheap source of both delicious and nourishing protein.

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