Lionfish Invasion

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Lionfish Article

Check this out... Lionfish are becoming an invasive species....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814...sh_invasion;_ylt=AqZB2z3NpaeymcYJOsIEPIas0NUE

 

[saiyette]

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20080813/Lionfish.Invasion/

I read this this morning and thought that maybe this is a good candidate for wild collecting for the aquarium trade. Justin mentioned that he finds them all the time on his LI collecting trips.

~Anne

 

[Behrmon]

Here come

Here come the Lions!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184738/

 

[saiyette]

Very interesting indeed...

 

[naturebatslast]

We just had a speaker at the Maine reef club on this issue. Apparently, lionfish that were aquarium specimens, were released off of Florida and have bred, naturally migrated and now foraging for prey off of the Bermuda.

 

[saiyette]

In the article I posted, it is claimed that 6 fish were accidentally released into Miami's Biscayne Bay because hurricane Andrew destroyed a private aquarium.

 

[Matt L.]

Pacific Lionfish Invading the Atlantic Ocean

An excellent segment was on the NBC nightly news last night regarding reef habitat destruction in the Atlantic Ocean due to introduction of the Indo-Pacific lionfish around 1992. There is video of this somewhere.

This topic has been discussed before. The last post was 2+ years ago.

There is now a concerted effort to round up and destroy these lionfish, but very little funding is available. They also say genetic testing reveals that these lionfish came from only 6-7 individuals.

Matt

 

[Owen28GT]

I'll take one...

 

[Nonmouse]

It was also discussed earlier today, here.

In the article in the other thread, it's theorized that they came from an aquarium smashed during Hurricane Andrew, in 1992...

 

[JohnK]

It was also discussed earlier today, here.

In the article in the other thread, it's theorized that they came from an aquarium smashed during Hurricane Andrew, in 1992...

Threads merged to make things simpler

 

[JackTheReefer]

I love the background bubbles.

Maybe I should start lionfish fishing.

 

[JeremyR]

There is alot of arguement about where they came from. People have also accused some dive shops of planting them around shipwrecks to attract divers.

They have made it all the way around to haiti, there is no stopping it now.

 

[JohnK]

And another merge

 

[saiyette]

hmmm... maybe the lion fish proliferation gene has invaded these threads...?

 

[fanaglethebagle]

It would be great to make it a no-permit fish and just have collectors go nuts on them and sell them very cheap.

 

[saiyette]

That is where my thought process was going in my original post...

~Anne

 

[Matt L.]

Sorry for the double post. I searched for lionfish and atlantic, and came up with nothing since the post 2 years ago, so I reposted.

This is really sad because they are devastating local reef fish populations

Matt

 

[JohnK]

Matt, do you have the link for that old thread? Might make a relavant addition here?

 

[Andy O]

Interesting article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184738/wid/18298287/?GT1=45002

 

[JohnK]

And merge #3, I think this a merging record