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Mystery purple slime coats Norway fjord
Published: 10 Nov 2015 14:12 GMT+01:00
A mysterious purple slime has emerged off the coast of northern Norway, coating millions of cubic meters of a picturesque fjord with a strange mucoid, margarine-like substance.
?We have not been able to find out what this really is, other than that we are talking about large amounts of jellyfish,? Roger Larsen, associate professor at the University in Troms?, told state news broadcaster NRK on Sunday.
?The images we are picking up from the echo sounders and other equipment are totally atypical. We have tried to gather information to find the answers, but I am absolutely sure that this is something we?ve never seen before.?
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Norway: Purple 'jellyfish slime' coats northern fjord
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12 November 2015
Scientists in Norway say a huge area of reddish-purple slime which has appeared on the country's northern coast could be the result of disintegrated jellyfish.
Fisherman first reported the emergence of the mucus in the Lyngen Fjord in late August, and now describe it as a "plague" which is causing problems for their sonar equipment, and coating their daily catch. The origin of the slime isn't yet certain, but oceanographers at the Institute of Marine Research say cigar comb jellyfish could be to blame, The Local website reports.
"It's probably dead or partially dead jellyfish," Tone Falkenhaug tells the site. "If you have dense blooms of jellyfish, they fall down into the water column and they start to disintegrate." On the institute's website Ms Falkenhaug says that more analysis is needed before they can be sure of the cause.
The mucus now covers a huge area of the fjord. "We are talking about millions of cubic metres," says Roger B. Larsen, who teaches at the Arctic University of Norway...
Published: 10 Nov 2015 14:12 GMT+01:00
A mysterious purple slime has emerged off the coast of northern Norway, coating millions of cubic meters of a picturesque fjord with a strange mucoid, margarine-like substance.
?We have not been able to find out what this really is, other than that we are talking about large amounts of jellyfish,? Roger Larsen, associate professor at the University in Troms?, told state news broadcaster NRK on Sunday.
?The images we are picking up from the echo sounders and other equipment are totally atypical. We have tried to gather information to find the answers, but I am absolutely sure that this is something we?ve never seen before.?
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News From Elsewhere
Norway: Purple 'jellyfish slime' coats northern fjord
...
12 November 2015
Scientists in Norway say a huge area of reddish-purple slime which has appeared on the country's northern coast could be the result of disintegrated jellyfish.
Fisherman first reported the emergence of the mucus in the Lyngen Fjord in late August, and now describe it as a "plague" which is causing problems for their sonar equipment, and coating their daily catch. The origin of the slime isn't yet certain, but oceanographers at the Institute of Marine Research say cigar comb jellyfish could be to blame, The Local website reports.
"It's probably dead or partially dead jellyfish," Tone Falkenhaug tells the site. "If you have dense blooms of jellyfish, they fall down into the water column and they start to disintegrate." On the institute's website Ms Falkenhaug says that more analysis is needed before they can be sure of the cause.
The mucus now covers a huge area of the fjord. "We are talking about millions of cubic metres," says Roger B. Larsen, who teaches at the Arctic University of Norway...
