killing lionfish in Bonaire?

[CuracaoJ]

Vince,

Thanks. That is great news for my ears. That is very similar to what we are pushing for here in Curacao. Unfortunately our government moves at a snails pace compared to Bonaire.

Mike, I'm not a big fan of the ELF either, rather the opposite, but I gotta give kudos to Bonaire for what they are doing and how fast they started doing it. I can also assure you it is working, we are getting double or triple the numbers on our catches here than they are reporting in Bonaire.

 

[chauncy19]

to add my limited knowledge to this--just returned from Bonaire and saw few lion fish. was there this past summer and saw many. don't know whats going on but something has changed. I don't go out of my way to look for them but note the ones i do spot. not saying the threat is over or anything like that as I am no expert on lion fish or diving for that matter. just an observation from a dive tourist.

 

[PARADISE HUNTER]

We just returned and only saw three lionfish in our week of diving. Compare that to the three a day we saw last year in Cozumel. One of the advantages that Bonaire has is a reasonable max depth on most of it's walls of @ 140'. Compared to other islands that the wall doesn't end until over a 1000'. The lion fish just go deeper when hunted and continue to reproduce. In Bonaire, there is not place to hide for the most part.

PH