Jellyfish under the microscope in bid to curb beach clusters

Jellyfish are being bred in Ireland’s top aquarium in a bid to discover how to stop swarms hitting beaches every summer.

Marine biologists in Dingle Oceanworld have been reproducing the relatively harmless moon jellyfish in special tanks for the past few months for a stunning new exhibit in the freshly refurbished Kerry aquarium.

It is thought jellyfish numbers have spiked worldwide as their predators of tuna and turtles are down in numbers. A jellyfish cluster as big as a football pitch was recently captured on film off the Kerry coast.