Sea worm, jellyfish, what is it??

[karlaq]

sharks don't lay eggs, they are livebeares karlaq.

right xD.. still believe they arent eggs though since as I said before theyr usually attached to a surface.

[LapsiBoy]

Not all eggs are attached to a surface.

[robby017]

i don't believe that they are eggs, its just another strange, and beautiful organism the sea has to offer to us.... i've met these out at sea time and time again... with loads of differant shapes and sizes.

[clutch_kick]

Some sharks lay Egg cases (what are sometimes called Mermaid Puches) and other sharks are live bearers.

lapsi boy .. an egg is a self contained, self sufficient object.  The embryo inside it, that will eventually become a larvae or a foetus will have sufficient food, in the form of Yolk, to sustain it until it hatches.   So, we can safely say that up until today science has no records at all of an egg capable to feed!! Ofcourse, discoveries are made everyday, you might even get a nobel prize for the discovery  .

Just imagine your chicken egss tring to bite you before turning them into scrambled eggs ... hehehe

[Granitu]

but they are not sharks, a very good fisherman once old me the fish that breeds like that. used to breed in ports now it is nearly extinct.

take gd care when you see eggs they are the future

[Simon G]

hi guys to me it looks alot like some jelly fish we see while freediving over the past few years we have seen many different shaped jellys and dogfish (mazzola)spieces still lay eggs

[MartinB]

As far as i know they are jellyfish or a similar organism and not eggs as i have seen them before from my usual fishing spot (last year in point of fact)...and besides fish usually lay eggs on peices of flotsam or amongst weed etc I have also witness them "chasing" (more like engulfing as they were huge easy 12-20m in length) those small shrimp's.

As clutchkick said e-fisher may know as its his field of expertise 

[SPITEC]

I asked at fisheries and they told me its neither a jellyfish nor eggs.They told me what its called but I forgot.As Martin said they grow up meters in length.

[MCFS San Lucjan]

The specimen is a colonial tunicate, many individuals joined together moving simultaneously. The species is Salpa democratica.

I have seen them on several occasions

Regards

Michael Darmanin
Senior Fisheries Officer
Malta Centre for Fisheries Sciences

[ramio]

Thanks for the info Mr Darmanin.

[shanook]

are they dangerous or can cause some kind of irritation when touched.

[SPITEC]

You don't blame me that I forgot! With that strange name 

[gio14]

It looks like a type of jellyfish.

[skip]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp

[placebo]

saw one by the tuna fishfarms yesterday