JBS-11 From ecological to economic benefits: the positive sides of jellyfish

 

Jellyfish blooms and outbreaks are often perceived as negative, not only when they interfere with human population needs such as in the tourist, industrial, fisheries, and aquaculture sectors, but also regarding key ecological functions. However, they also play an important and beneficial ecological role, and also represent a substantial stock of biomass which could be used for different purposes. Indeed, both attenuating or protecting against the negative impact of jellyfish presence and favouring its positive uses represent large technological, economic, and societal challenges which sometimes may even be combined. We invite contributions that study the positive and negative imprints of jellyfish occurrence on ecological functions and human activities, as well as on solutions developed to either diminish their negative impact or use jellyfish for recreational (including aquariums), nutritional, biomedical, agricultural, or bioindustrial means.

 

Chairs:

Fabien Lombard - Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche sur Mer (France)

Alenka Malej - Morska Biološka Postaja Piran, NIB (Slovenia)