1KWIK_69
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I think I did understand... I'm just saying that the presence of lionfish in places other than reefs is something you should care about (if you care that lionfish are on the reefs), because those remote lionfish are going to breed, and create a constant supply of additional lionfish for the reefs where you don't want them.
Turning a blind eye to them, in my opinion, is more or less the same as saying you don't care about the swamp full of mosquitos behind the house, so long as we keep swatting the ones in our yard.
I never said I was turning a blind eye. I meant that there is absolutely no way we can capture or kill all the lionfish in the open sea, so we're destined to have an inexhaustable supply of them, but we can still do a lot to continually keep them off the reefs. I guess they're kind of like herpes! Once the Atlantic caught them, it was stuck with them forever. All we can do is treat the symptoms.