Too Squishy

Humbolt Squids.They are big, and they are coming onshore like nobody's business. The stinking vellelas have not appeared this year, as they did in great drifts two years ago (see "Stinking Phoenicians" post, April 2007).

Jellyfish, on the other hand, are forming gigantic impenetrable, near-solid rafts in the seas off Asia. What the hell? Too bad the Salp died, otherwise we could get some local recon on these phenomena.