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Though the freshwater jellyfish have been floating around Ontario for decades, the tiny invaders have flown under the radar. “We just put it online only to show friends and family because we both grew up going out on the lake and had never heard of them.” The Facebook video of the unusual catch has been viewed more than a million times. The couple captured the jellyfish - first in a net, then on camera. It was the only thing we caught that day,” Donnelly said. “It was just floating at our ladder then it started swimming. When you catch what appears to be a jelly fish from Lake Erie Jeremy Stevenson Just so everyone is aware the Ministry.Posted by Darien Donnelly on Saturday, July 8, 2017 They thought it was a piece of garbage, until it moved. Clair, they’re just not spotted often.ĭarien Donnelly and Jeremy Stevenson didn’t know what to make of the translucent blob floating in the water near their fishing dock by Port Dover’s lift bridge July 8. Though Muskoka is a hot spot for the 2.5-centimetre creatures, the ministry said freshwater jellyfish appear to have entered lakes Erie and St. “In both cases they were probably there for some time before they were reported,” Brinsmead said. The invasive invertebrates, native to the Yangtze River in China, were first discovered in Georgian Bay in the 1950s and inland at Lake Muskoka in 2002. Brinsmead said the jellyfish likely arrived in Ontario on a contaminated ship or plant. The ministry believes the jellyfish, whose proper name is Craspedacusta sowerbii, were stowaways on aquatic plants imported to Europe in the 1800s before they hitched a ride to Philadelphia in boat ballast water. “There’s no known way to remove freshwater jellyfish from a lake ecosystem once it is there,” said Jeff Brinsmead, senior invasive species biologist with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. Though the small and slimy translucent animals are a rare sight, one thing is clear: they’re here to stay. They’re freshwater jellyfish, a non-native species that’s been spotted in Port Dover, Norfolk County, Welland, Fort Erie and in lakes and streams across central Ontario.

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