India's first jellyfish lake discovered in Gujarat

Sea life scholars have uncovered a jellyfish lake in Gujarat, most likely the first such in India.

"This is presumably the first jellyfish lake to have been found in India. The fixation and thickness of jellyfish is high here. You can even see them from outside amid low tide and when the water is clear," untamed life researcher BC Choudhury said.

Headed by him, a group of analysts from the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have as of late unearthed the jellyfish territory amid a routine field visit to a residential community named Armabada in Gujarat.

A few WTI sea life scholars in snorkeling packs and outfitted with a submerged Polaroid found that the bottom of the lake, spread in excess of 5-6 hectares, was covered with a kind of jellyfish known as 'upside down jellyfish'. They are called so in light of the fact that they are discovered swimming upside down not at all like others.

"They position themselves on their bottom side to get most extreme daylight as they harbor photosynthetic green growth called Zooxanthellae, which have a harmonious association with jellyfish like corals," clarified sea life researcher S Goutham.

An alternate remarkable peculiarity of the lake is that these jellyfish are available all around the year dissimilar to different spots where they are accounted for to be regular. As indicated by specialists, the huge blossom of jellyfish in the lake may be credited to low predation.

Jellyfish are found in distinctive parts of beachfront India yet are seen infrequently in lakes. The incredibly famous jellyfish lake is placed on Eil Malk Island in Palau.