Hank49
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He makes an awesome heavy backplate. I know since I own one!![]()
This means that the ones that are here came from somewhere else. Why aren't there more? They've been here for about 4 years now.
"How about teaching them to find and identify all of those: "schools of yellow tail snapper, turtles, eels, staghorn, a nurse shark, queen conch and so many different species"... You mean like I already did?
I see you're trying to make a point here, but you've lost it in your attempt to be snarky. Man manages his natural resources based on current scientific understanding. Quite often, science is just plain wrong and our understanding shifts.
While that may very well be the case here, I don't want to vilify people who are trying to help their environment out by eliminating a perceived threat.
Its incredibly easy to judge or even misjudge a person's motivations and I would hate to see that happen here. Until such time that environmentalists come out in unison and decry the lionfish massacre, you're going to see people actively trying to impact this threat. Diving is about having fun and doing no harm. As long as people engage in such a way as to be able to sustain our impact, I see no big problems. In this case, I see it positively impacting the scuba industry and that's a good thing in my estimation.
O rly? We were actually working on trim, buoyancy and buddy skills for their AOW. We still had the presence of mind to spot all these wonderful creatures.These were "students" you said... probably not into multi-tasking... most divers are not.
If that's what YOU want to do, please have at it. Not everyone HAS to do this YOUR way. Hunting is an atavistic exercise that harkens back to our ancestors. Any carnivore or pescavore that decries hunting displays a naivete that borders on the absurd. Its not against my ethics to have fun in order to eat.No different than the need to put a camera in the hand- this is yet another "thing to do while diving". ("Giving people an underwater mission is always a great idea....It's stinking fun!")
The industry IS gasping for air. I don't mind doing some artificial respiration by hunting an invasive species. I'm not sure why you think an invasive species should be held as sacrosanct while the Scuba industry continues to struggle. Rather than have it flounder, lets let it Lionfish! Bad pun, but I had to get it off my chest.The industry is gasping for air, so the Lionfish will be what SeaHunt did in the 60's, Jaws in the 70's. I am thinking and speaking from intimate industry contact for 50+ years. There is a perspective, here... look at the broader scene, not just what you yourself are doing- it's endemic.
The industry IS gasping for air. I don't mind doing some artificial respiration by hunting an invasive species. I'm not sure why you think an invasive species should be held as sacrosanct while the Scuba industry continues to struggle. Rather than have it flounder, lets let it Lionfish! Bad pun, but I had to get it off my chest.
Only if you can flex them afterwards on mussel beach.And lets face it, hunting the wile quagga mussel is not going to get a lot of divers fired up.
The Romans thought that eels came from horse hair that fell into the water because they never saw a juvenile eel. We know that to be false. I am sure a large number of lionfish eggs and larva are eaten by fish. Where do the small ones live? Maybe bays and estuaries where you don't dive. Maybe the small ones hide until their spines are big enough to deter predators. I know in Florida people find small ones and either kill them or sell them to the aquarium trade.
Only if you can flex them afterwards on mussel beach.
O rly?
That's the point I was getting at. Many are frantically saying "there is no predator, they'll take over the Caribbean and all we'll have left is lionfish". that's obviously not the case. At least here.