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The Jellyfish Fishermen Throw Away Might Soon Be on Your Face

How very human of us to think something is a meddlesome little pest… until we find a way to profit off of it.

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Whenever I think of jellyfish, I think of the story I read years ago about how they are a recurring nightmare for Japanese fishermen. These guys just want to catch some fish for some delicious sushi, but then massive blooms of jellyfish start clogging the fishing nets, ripping them apart, and sometimes poisoning or suffocating the fish trapped alongside them, ruining the catch.

A team of researchers wants to change that by turning some of those caught jellyfish into something useful. A new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science, brought to our attention by Gizmodo, argues that these blobs could be converted into collagen that can be used in a variety of ways, mostly in cosmetics.

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