The larger ones make a good size portion. In Lake Worth ( near Island of Palm Beach) there is a VERY high end Italian restaurant called Paridiso, who has prepared these Livornese style, and they taste so good regulars to this restuarant would be happy spending $30 or more for the dish.
If more high end restaurants pick up on th
is, there could be a pretty strong inducement to get divers active in taking lionfish....
This could also be an opportunity for certain SoCal divers.....you could invent your own LionFish BC....
Benefits:
- spines/quills of BC slow uncontrolled ascents making diver safer
- sharks are unlikely to eat you with this BC on
- OOA divers would be unlikely to attempt to grab a reg from your mouth
- video showing how fast a lionfish can move when it wants to--indicating the BC user might have speed bursts if needed
Regards,
DanV