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RE: Are you ready to eat jellyfish? Is it the next sustainable protein?
How about a glow-in-the-dark jellyfish ice cream that uses calcium activated proteins that react when they are agitated.
I could definitely get behind that! I'm a huge fan of all things food. Especially water bugs. I have a major affinity for Snow and King Crab. I also like oysters, mussels and of course, lobster. Calamari has grown on me quite well the past several years too, so, I can totally see myself nomming on some jellies.
As for their spike in population, haven't we over-fished a few other ocean dwellers that perhaps fed on them - say maybe the atlantic salmon and perhaps a tuna or two? I'd even go as far to say some whales got blubberized that probably didn't strain out the jellies in their baleen. Just a thought.
Oh for sure. We are decimating the natural fish eco systems. The research that I mentioned was showing that there are more ocean predators that actually eat jellyfish than we had previously thought... it also might account for what so many are dying from eating plastic as they cant differentiate between a floating bag or a jelly.
I read an article about a fishing trawler that almost capsized because the net they were pulling up was full of large jellyfish, some weighing upwards of 400lbs.
Who knows what is causing the blooms, warming oceans, over fishing, combination likely. We might be able to help, if it was more widely used. Lots of research going on in the food sector on make them more palatable. LOL, feels like the start of the TOFU jerky days (or TOFU leather) - heck of a lot better now... just a matter of time - Jelly Jerky :-)