You've found the answer! Everyone - forward this testimonial to all your friends and let them know about this! People will soon start swamping dive operators for lionfish safaris, spear gun and dive equipment sales will go through the roof, the fishing industry in America will be revitalized, McDonalds will soon have a replacement for Filet-o-Fish and the economy will turn around faster than Obama can say "change". Another spinoff will be better marital relations everywhere and then real peace will soon spread throughout the world (or is it piece). This isn't a pestilence - it's manna from heaven! I'd like mine with lemon butter, please.
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You've found the answer! Everyone - forward this testimonial to all your friends and let them know about this! People will soon start swamping dive operators for lionfish safaris, spear gun and dive equipment sales will go through the roof, the fishing industry in America will be revitalized, McDonalds will soon have a replacement for Filet-o-Fish and the economy will turn around faster than Obama can say "change". Another spinoff will be better marital relations everywhere and then real peace will soon spread throughout the world (or is it piece). This isn't a pestilence - it's manna from heaven! I'd like mine with lemon butter, please.
Hank49
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You're right. I wouldn't put up $100 per fish. But I'll shoot to kill every one I see. Come on down. We'll have some fun. do you dive?
The problem here is that Okinawa is indo-pacific, lionfish have been in this region for a good long while, whereas the lionfish of the Caribbean and Atlantic have been recently introduced, most likely as released aquarium fish. They don't have exposure to the adapted diseases and parasites that they do in their natural habitat, and the fish of the Caribbean have not evolved instinctive responses to them. Think about penguins in Antarctica, they have no idea about people, never evolved to deal with us, so if you want emperor penguin for supper, it suffices to walk up to one with a big stick. In the lionfish both of these changes will happen eventually, as Nude Diver's been pointing out, since the fish that don't wise up will be eaten, and Caribbean parasites will figure them out eventually, but in the mean time it just sucks in general for biodiversity on the reefs.
Unfortunately, the only predators that have been found to consume lionfish are groupers and bigger lionfish. The Mola-Mola (to answer another poster) is a mostly pelagic fish that eats principally jellyfish at great depths. As far as I know they only show up on reefs to either warm up or else to be cleaned of parasites (maybe a bit of both).
As for solutions, we should also see if lionfish venom has some kind of Botox-esque potential for the mass market
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You've found the answer! Everyone - forward this testimonial to all your friends and let them know about this! People will soon start swamping dive operators for lionfish safaris, spear gun and dive equipment sales will go through the roof, the fishing industry in America will be revitalized, McDonalds will soon have a replacement for Filet-o-Fish and the economy will turn around faster than Obama can say "change". Another spinoff will be better marital relations everywhere and then real peace will soon spread throughout the world (or is it piece). This isn't a pestilence - it's manna from heaven! I'd like mine with lemon butter, please.posted by Geokr
What a novel idea! Uh, no, wait...refer back to post #23. But I still think it's a notion that might catch on. Now, where is that recipe book?
What a novel idea! Uh, no, wait...refer back to post #23. But I still think it's a notion that might catch on. Now, where is that recipe book?
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And in reply to the question about what lionfish eat...A NOAA study of harvested lionfish in the Caribbean and off the eastern seaboard of the US concentrated on analyzing stomach contents. The stomachs contained an alarmingly high number of juvenile grouper, but there was also a huge diversity of fish represented. In short, the biologists concluded that the lionfish ate pretty much whatever would fit into its mouth, and it has a pretty good sized one for a fish of its stature. Since grouper are pretty slow to mature and produce offspring, the fear is that the new generation of grouper is being seriously undermined.
If you guys on the east coast can tell me how you preserved the Manatee; Then I will do research how the Lion Fish co-exists here in Okinawa, Japan. Why?
The relative to the Manatee the Dugon is near extinction here in Okinawa, Japan. My quest is to save the Dugon. However, the lion fish is in balance in the East China Sea. The Lion Fish is agresive in the Atlantic but yet the Manatee is doing well...is there a relationship here? Humans want to naturaly make every thing simple so they can understand it, yet the sea may be the most complex organisim on earth, and we must preserve it.
docwagner
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I'm not sure the manatees are out of danger. The biggest problem here is loss of habitat and injury from power boats. There are more and more sanctuaries that limit boat traffic, but I think the Manatees are still in jeopardy. Good luck with the Dugon. Why are they in trouble, same reasons or do the Japanese like to eat them?
We have all the same hazards as Florida. Fishing boats, and loss of habitat. Plus we still have people eating the Dugons. We also have problems with large fishing nets, dreging of eel grass areas, building of ports in dugon habitat, and unclean water going into the ocean.
However our lion fish seem to be in check. I do not know what eats them but it is a thrill for a diver to see a lion fish in Okinawa. There are about 6 different sub species of lion fish here. I wonder if the lion fish compete against each other. The minno's survive to adulthood from the lion fish beacuse our reefs are alive and there are plenty of hiding spaces for the fish to advoid the lion fish. Only the weak get eaten just like on the African Safari. I am no scientist but if you worked on your reefs then the lion fish may work in balance with rest of the fish.
However our lion fish seem to be in check. I do not know what eats them but it is a thrill for a diver to see a lion fish in Okinawa. There are about 6 different sub species of lion fish here. I wonder if the lion fish compete against each other. The minno's survive to adulthood from the lion fish beacuse our reefs are alive and there are plenty of hiding spaces for the fish to advoid the lion fish. Only the weak get eaten just like on the African Safari. I am no scientist but if you worked on your reefs then the lion fish may work in balance with rest of the fish.
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