3.B.1.2 Mnemiopsis leidyi jelly

The rainbow jelly or Leidy's comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi is an exotic species accidentally introduced to the Black Sea in the early 1980s. Today its a mass planktonik species with atotal biomass of about 1,000,000,000 tons. It feeds on zooplankton, eggs and fish larvae. It grows to a size of up to 10-15 cm.
Source: Biolological Diversity in the Black Sea, BSEP Series Vol.3.

	3.B.1.2	Opportunistic settlers
	3.B.1	Fisheries issues: status of stocks and management of wild resources
	3.C.2.1	Trout shore-based aquaculture
	2.C.2.1	Sea cages for salmon and trout
	2.B.3	The Black Sea coast
	2.A.4.2	Municipal garbage dumped in a sensitive Black Sea wetland
	2.A.4.3	The 100,000 ton oil tanker Nassia, on fire near the Bosphorus on March 1994
	2.C.3	Ecological demonstration in Turkey