Lionfish - are predators getting a taste for them

[60plus]

Watched a couple of videos on youtube. One showed a Barracuda eating a lionfish, the other was the first recorded instance of grouper eating a lionfish.
Lanzarote - I have never seen a lionfish and there are a lot of Barracuda
Madeira - I have never seen a lionfish and there are quite a few barracuda and groupers
Portugal - I did not see any groupers, maybe an occasional small barracuda but there were lionfish
Greece - no barracuda or grouper but lionfish on 3 out of 6 dives.

 

[Graveyarddiver]

In my opinion, no. They are growing in numbers in North Carolina, about the only thing slowing their population growth is fisherman chilling them whenever they catch one, and spear fisherman in dive boats killing every last one in a dive site. I’ve been seeing their. Umbers grow in the warmer south eastern United States waters, but not in New England the cold probably stops them from moving north

 

[Doc]

Barracuda must be the solution to this man-made problem. Darwin in action, these wily predators will spread the word and evolve their DNA.

Then we’ll be swimming, so to speak, in Barracudi. (Barracudem?)

How ‘bout them Barracuda,
Ain’t they shiny?
Eatin’ them Lionfish,
Bitin’ em in they hiney.

 

[Steelyeyes]

I did see a video clip of a white tipped reef shark eating one of it's own volition on a reef in Cuba. It's still seems to be very rare.

 

[Doc]

I did see a video clip of a white tipped reef shark eating one of it's own volition on a reef in Cuba. It's still seems to be very rare.

Rare Cuban reefs?

 

[Steelyeyes]

Rare Cuban reefs?

Unassisted predation on lion fish is rare.

 

[Pedro Burrito]

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[David Novo]

Portugal - I did not see any groupers, maybe an occasional small barracuda but there were lionfish

Where?!

 

[60plus]

In the bay off Lagos on the Algarve.

 

[60plus]

They have also been see on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey