VietNamNet Bridge – In the last few days, Da Nang coastline has been ‘attacked’ by masses of jellyfish, which have made the beaches here less safe for tourists.

Many tourists have complained about being stung by jellyfish and they had to buy medicine to treat it.

Local people said that more jellyfish have come to the shore than previous years.

Jellyfish often appear on the beach in the morning and the late afternoon when many people prefer bathing in the sea. Beach guards have used nets to catch the creatures and bury them.

Phan Minh Hai, deputy head of the management board of Son Tra Peninsular and beaches in Da Nang, said the city mobilized the coastal rescue forces to collect jellyfish every day. The forces worked from 7-10am and collected about 1 ton of jellyfish every morning.

Hai said the volume of jellyfish on the beach had dropped. Da Nang authorities did not know why such huge volumes of jellyfish washed ashore. In the long term, the tourism industry has proposed to drop fishing nets to prevent jellyfish from being washed onto beaches.

Le Ha