clinging jellyfish

The threat to New Jersey didn't even exist as recently as 2015.

We've been hearing since Summer began, jellyfish have been around on our beaches and at our bays. They're just too darn close for my liking at this point.

Clinging jellyfish, who can painfully sting, have been spotted near one of Ocean County's most popular summer boating and swimming destinations.

Jersey environmental officials issue a warning to swimmers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties after clinging jellyfish have begun populating.

We are not surprised when our usual Jellyfish make their appearance each Summer here at the Jersey Shore, but Officials are saying they have found a new version.....the "Clinging Jellyfish". In a recent Patch article researchers at Montclair University reported finding nearly 40 of the species in an area off Monmouth Beach known as "the Hook".

For years, New Jersey researchers have been trying to get rid of stinging sea nettles, but they might actually be serving a useful purpose.

Careful where you go fishing. Officials say what to look out for and what to do if you're stung.

Between May and October each year the Barnegat Bay Partnership (on the heels of their State of the Bay Report release), samples with a 50-foot seine net at numerous parts of Barnegat Bay looking for juvenile fish. Officials have come across a variety of estuarine fish since 2012, but among them four are jellyfish species of which certain types have a potent and harmful sting.

New Jerseyans living on bay and riverfronts are being encouraged to take proactive steps to stop the spread of sea nettles, a type of stinging jellyfish that have shut down swimming in some inland waterways.