Scientists’ use passenger ferry to tackle jellyfish ‘threat’

FERRIES crossing the Irish Sea are being used to police the arrival of jellyfish lethal to fish stocks.

In recent weeks scientists have begun using the passenger ferries on the busy shipping route as the first form of defence against the jellyfish.

This work involves co-operation between a research team in Swansea and University College Cork’s Dr Thomas Doyle, who has previously studied jellyfish patterns.