Applying the brakes: potential management responses
The synergistic impact of multiple human activities
causing more-frequent jellyfish blooms is likely to
require a multifaceted integrated response beyond our
current traditional management of single environmental
issues and of single-species fisheries [43,54]. Although
high jellyfish abundances caused by cyclical climate
patterns are likely to return to more normal conditions
[55], ecosystems that have rapidly switched to
being dominated by jellyfish because of anthropogenic