Comments on: Salps

By: Mike Whalen

Mike Whalen — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:09:35 +0000

If you want to see salps come to the Jersey Shore. They have been all over the beaches in Ocean County for the past several weeks. They are a nuisance to swimmers and especially fishermen as they stick to your fishing line.

By: acsmith

acsmith — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:16:10 +0000

I’ve seen many different salps and colonial salps in Santa Monica bay and other places in the ‘Pacific Ocean’ but one petecular one I have only seen rearly is the pyrosoma a very beautiful animal with it’s lavender purple overtones. When ever im out at sea im looking for anything interesting, but have’tn seen pyrosoma in a very long time, but I will keep looking. The times I did see them we only about a mile or so offshore in water maybe 90 feet, at palo verde pensular.

By: katesisco

katesisco — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:42:21 +0000

Actually, this profusion of salps is not a good thing……reading from The Ptarmigan’s Dilemma page 335 says salps are becoming more abundant due to the decrease of krill, because the preferred food of krill is decreasing and filling the eco spot is the preferred food of salps. Less nutritious & way more prolific; I thought our future food was to be jellyfish (comb jellies) but now maybe farmed salps. Remember less nutritious & is now at the #1 spot on the food chain. Explains a lot of ‘starvation’ doesn’t it. Mother Nature getting into the fall-back position.
By the way, excellent book, PD

By: mansoud

mansoud — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:35:41 +0000

hahaha yh! ive seen that film and i love it, its quite nice film!

By: mansoud

mansoud — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:32:11 +0000

i think they cant help if we carry on they way we produce carbon today but there is hope!

By: Welsh Dave

Welsh Dave — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:16:59 +0000

The average swarm of Salp remove 4000 tons of carbon each night! Maybe Salps are the way forward!!

By: mansoud

mansoud — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:21:21 +0000

have you seen one in ur real life?
i havent seen in real life but i wish to see it cuz i just heard of it and understood how important they can be in our life on earth.

By: mansoud

mansoud — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:19:05 +0000

hahahaha looooool, pet salp!?!! i just wonder why you want a salp as a pet? is your house that much polluted that you need salps to clean it up?
joke loool
i love to have one as well in my bedchamber. its the first time i have heard of it and i found out how important they can be to our life on earth!

By: mansoud

mansoud — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:07:00 +0000

no loool, they are not there for to release more carbon dioxide in the air. it says that they are contributes with the climate change, it mean that they help us to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide. the decrease the global warming not increase.
but im not sure my friend that is what i understand from the quote above! if its true then its a credit to us human!

By: mansoud

mansoud — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:57:38 +0000

if salps can contribute and help us to solve the problems that we facing today because of climate change, what we can do to increase their number to maintain or level the amount of carbon dioxide?
this is the first time i have heard of salps and im very curious about it, i love to know more about it. its like a new way of solving the problems that we are facing today as a world! if its true!!!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:01:19 +0000

Anyone ever seen “The Abyss?” awesome movie. The alien creature things remind me of salps.

By: LoLa

LoLa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:43:15 +0000

I saw my first salp in the Canary Islands last weekend. What a bizarre looking animal! Loved seeing it and learning about it.

By: Blommaerts Suzanne

Blommaerts Suzanne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:35:49 +0000

Salps even contribute to climate changes in an area.
Do they encrease global warming?

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:26:44 +0000

I have seen them all to close at the Jersey Shore. When I tried to swim I was covered in them and when you try to walk on the beach you can’t avoid them and you slip on them. It is just like goo. They are very interesting but it is not a lot of fun to swim with them. It is kind of gross.

By: zunaira

zunaira — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:01:02 +0000

i really wish that i could see them in real….

By: katab

katab — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:05:28 +0000

I WANT A PET SALP

By: josh stump

josh stump — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:45:29 +0000

salps are awsome