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by thfuran 900 days ago
They could start eating jellyfish to pick up the slack.
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Yes, that is the second half of the documentary. They were trying to come up with delicious recipes to take advantage of the situation. I don't imagine I would like to eat jellyfish either, but I would certainly give it a try.
> They were trying to come up with delicious recipes to take advantage of the situation

And this plan will be a failure from the start. The pool of edible species is just a very small part of the total.

Leatherback turtles eat jellyfishes. What if we stop killing them instead? or increase the ludicrous amount of resources allocated to protect turtle nests?

it doesn't taste like anything... it's 90%+ water, and water solid remains is basically tofu: absorbs the flavor of what it's cooked with
The Chinese prepare it quite well! It's great with some chili oil in a salad
95% water. The economics just don't work. Is spending dollars in fuel to move tons of water from the sea, trow the 90% again to the sea and sell the remains for pennies.
Unfortunately not

They are not even remotely substitutes nutritionally

Maybe? I mean sea urchin is delicious, popular, and sells at a high price but still seems to threaten a lot of kelp forest