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If you decide to start at the tail, work toward the head, and spray lead throughout the Lionfish, inflicting the maximum torture effect possible for the evil creatures, than the fillet and the "meal" will not work out so well....but that would be a different "mission" anyway
While I can read the passion and love for animals in your post, and agree.. it is us humans that most likely caused this invasion, so far, we humans are the only ones who can stop it. Lionfish in this part of the world are invasive. They are eating anything and everything in sight, killing off the native species at a record number. If they are not stopped, our reef system and our ocean will die. It's already a precarious position with our oceans in such bad shape, and now we have yet another threat. And it is bigger and badder than the worst oil spill. Lionfish have spread from where they first were found, in South Florida, to thousands of miles, and deep too. They have no boundries. Cold water New York? Found em. Island in middle of Atlantic, Bermuda? found them. 300 ft. deep off North Carolina? found them.Sure hope that that's a joke because they didn't choose to be evil or a bother to us humans. In fact, they do serve as a form of apex predator in some reef systems. It's us humans which propagated them.
Hey everyone! I have just gotten advanced certified and I'm wondering what are some great lion fish hunting spots here in the USA?? Any feedback will be much appreciated.
Die hard diver ;D
Just swap out the spring stop. It will work.
But it will ruin the gun, unless you are the most meticulous of cleaners.
Sounds like Dan has had a slow weekend.
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Perhaps the real mistake is to deplete our oceans of many species and not realise the interconnection between one species and another. Take away the predator and you have an explosion of the next lower level. I still think we are probably the root cause of this issue, we just don't realise how we are causing it. Perhaps from over fishing, pollution killing off a species we don't realise or care about. As a species we are so quick to blame something else and also quick to attempt to control an issue without understanding the root cause.
We are often too simplistic in our analysis in an attempt to fix the issue quickly. A homo-sapien trait.