Methinks it's just karma...

Giant jellyfish stymie Japanese fishermen

A slimy jellyfish weighing as much as a sumo wrestler has Japan's fishing industry in the grip of its poisonous tentacles.

Vast numbers of echizen kurage, or nomura's jellyfish, have appeared around Japan's coast since July.

They are clogging and ripping fishing nets and forcing fishermen to spend hours hacking them apart in order to retrieve their catches.

Representatives of fishing communities around the country have gathered in Tokyo, hoping to thrash out solutions to a pest that has spread from the Japan Sea to the Pacific coast.

"It's a terrible problem. They're like aliens," Noriyuki Kani of the Fisheries Federation in Toyama, north-west of Tokyo, said. Read the rest here.

Personally, I think the best part of the article is a little further down, where the Japanese want to investigate if the jellyfish are coming from South Korea or China - like it's some sort of conspiracy. Yeah, I could see that happening. Trained giant jellyfish...

They're on the right track though. Really, it was us who sent in the jellyfish in. If they'd just get their whaling 'research' boats out of the Southern Ocean conservation areas, we'd call off the jellyfish.....