The 7^th Korea-Japan-China Jellyfish Workshop Held in Korea, 20-22 December, 2010

National Fisheries Research & Development Institute, NFRDI, hosted “the 7^th Korea-Japan-China Jellyfish Workshop” in Gyeongju, Korea, 20-22 December, 2010 to discuss on joint measures to respond to mass occurrence of jellyfish.

The joint workshop which was incepted in 2004, a year after the first mass occurrence of large and poisonous Nomura’s jellyfish is rotating among the three countries to be annually held.

Main discussions for the past 6 years were focused on jellyfish removing technology and genome analysis and the three countries have exchanged jellyfish experts each other. They also agreed to publish Korea-Japan-China Jellyfish Photo Dictionary.

At the 7^th workshop, participants made various presentations on research trends of their representing countries, jellyfish monitoring, jellyfish movement modeling results, etc.