Officials Issue Warning For Clinging Jellyfish In New Jersey
哥伦比亚广播公司特邀海洋生物学和海岸科学项目主任保罗·博洛尼亚博士为我们报道新泽西州水域的粘水母问题。
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The clinging jellyfish was first confirmed in New Jersey in 2016 in the Manasquan River at the Point Pleasant Canal. The DEP has been working with Montclair State University in studying the possible distribution of clinging jellyfish in New Jersey.
Montclair researchers this week confirmed the presence of about 15 clinging jellyfish of varying sizes off a private dock in the Metedeconk. Genetic testing is being conducted for final verification.
We don’t know how long they’ve been here. They might have been here for decades and nobody’s actually seen them. They’re very, very small – size of a dime, size of a quarter is about as big as they get – but they’ll put you in the hospital.