A visitor to Cape May Beach captured an amazing photo of a huge jellyfish that had washed ashore. We know they're stings can be scary, but this jellyfish is a thing of beauty.
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.
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".
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.