Vincent Doumeizel
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So it's the same with plastic.
I mean, plastic is a problem for some of the plankton.
It benefits some others.
If you take the jellyfish we were talking about, we know that we have a growing number of jellyfish in the ocean.
I don't know if you heard, but some years ago we had another jellyfish, like 26 kilometers of jellyfish with eight meters thick who passed by a salmon farm and they destroyed everything.
Anyway, we have
Growing number of jellyfish in the ocean.
We are going to an ocean of jellyfish because jellyfish, they are plankton.
They are very, very basic animal.
And they benefit from everything we are doing.
So they love climate change because they are very resilient and they love warm waters.
They love overfishing because overfishing kills their predator and their competitor.
So they are easy.
I mean, they love plastics because plastics and plastic bags will kill the turtle, which are their predators.
And a turtle can eat up to 300 jellyfish a day.
And even better, jellyfish, they will spawn their eggs on microplastics.
Because of their flottability, it will enable their eggs to spread around the world.
And jellyfish, they can spawn up to 19,000 eggs a day.
So they are very, very prolific.
And they can spread them around the world because of microplastics.