Summer visitors and bathers in general can breathe easy as the dense jellyfish plague, which yesterday forced red flags to be flown along the entire coastline and made swimming impossible because of the high risk of stings, begins to ease.
This morning, green flags were already flying on all our beaches, with a medium level of jellyfish that fell by midday to a low level in terms of the presence of these invertebrates.
According to Francis Franco, director of the Costa del Sol Coastal Sciences Chair, the exponential increase of these marine animals along the coast of Málaga in general «will also begin to ease on the western coast as they reach the Strait of Gibraltar and rejoin the gyre of currents in the Alboran Sea coming from the Atlantic». The Pelagia lives on the high seas, as it does not need to come to the coast to feed or reproduce and also has little ability to move around, which is why it tends to live within the same body of water that is carried along by the currents. «They are generally enclosed in these gyres, but there are times, as has happened over the last two weeks, when the gyre has opened up a great deal, almost touching the coast of Málaga and carrying masses of water with this species. It is then that the easterly currents push the jellyfish towards the beaches and, as the current flows from east to west, they travel the route from Nerja to Manilva», the expert explains.
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