Hank49
Contributor
Simple solution....just have environmental groups come up with a fund to cover a "Bounty" for any lionfish shot by spearfisherman and documented.....Just having every spearfisherman shoot any lionfish on sight would probably work almost as well--they could think of it as a "righteous shoot"
Dan V
I worked with a group of divers trying to eradicate crown of thorns starfish, much less mobile than even lionfish, from a mere 6 mile stretch of beach and reef. Every week 30-40 of us went out and collected them and disposed of them in a hole we had dug. And every week we went back out, it hardly seemed like we'd been there the week before. And the lionfish has been seen from Florida up to the Carolinas? good luck. I'd say they're there to stay.
They're predators but the tang is an algae eater. They shouldn't hurt and maybe they'll cross with the blue one we have and make a pretty green one? Angel fish are coral and algae eaters also I believe.