PADI: Lionfish Spearing Course

[on_two_wheels]

There's an optional dive available in Grand Cayman. You go out with a DM or Instructor. Any lionfish that are brought back are cooked up for you.

I agree that it probably isn't as bad as is currently thought. Lots of fish originated in places other than where they're found. We are just soooo short sighted on these matters that we want to fix everything. Give it 50-100 years and the eco balance will return to a balanced state somehow. Nature just has a way of working these things out if allowed time.

 

[Guba]

The fellow in the Bahamas is Fred Riger, of Grand Bahama Scuba. The thread is a fairly long running one, "Lionfish Awareness and Elimination", seen in the Basic Scuba Forum.

 

[Hank49]

Thanks Guba.

 

[DazedAndConfuzed]

In 100 years, there will be no more reef in the Caribbeans. We'll be hunting for lionfish off joysey shore. Anyway, the solution seems to be just about killing, never conservation. Not sure if all the divers that are constantly talking about spearing lionfish were the same divers that always talked about not touching anything, or is this some other breed of divers that just jump into these threads because there is killing involved.