Sudden increase in number of jellyfish in Baltic Sea

KALININGRAD, August 22 (RIA Novosti, Anatoly Nilov) - The number of jellyfish in the Baltic Sea has sharply increased.

Residents of the Kaliningrad region say that in some places seawater resembled broth.

"The sharp increase in the number of jellyfish is linked with the...heat," Vsevolod Bondarenko, a representative of the bio-ecological faculty of the Kaliningrad-based Kant Russian State University, said Monday.

Jellyfish usually approach the coast searching for plankton in warm windless weather, he said.

Bondarenko said that if the storm that had hit the Kaliningrad region came again, the jellyfish would not have approached the coast. "This means that the weather will be warm and calm in the near future."

Jellyfish are not harmful to people.