atrawick
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Here is a link to the story! Time to get a small speargun!
http://spearboard.com/showthread.php?p=1313429
http://spearboard.com/showthread.php?p=1313429
First Reported PCB Lionfish!
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SuPrBuGmAn
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They've been sighted off the coast of AL and LA already, so no suprise they are everywhere in between.
mrmccoy
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Sad......but as long as they don't adapt to fresh water we will be ok 
GLENFWB
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OP
atrawick
Contributor
That would be a bad day!
mrmccoy
Guest
I wouldn't be bothered by them but they eat all the small fish......
GLENFWB
Contributor
I ain't scard of em'....heck I sellem! I just will assume I am narc'd if I see them back in JB. I might that Tri-mix class sooner Rob if I do see one!
Hetland
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The problem with lionfish is that they eat EVERYTHING that they can fit in their mouths, up to 3/4 of their own size. Worse, a female lionfish can release 30,000 eggs every 4 days year round. This rate of breeding is what truly gives them the advantage over all other local fish.
Not only will they eventually impact our fishing by competing with juvenile grouper and snapper (and ALL other important game fish) for food they will also eat them and simply out breed them as well.
Imagine releasing a pack of African Hyenas in Yellowstone National Park not only would they soon decimate the local deer, elk and bison populations they would also beat out the wolves at the same time and wipe them out as well. They simply do not belong here.
Ask the folks in the Bahamas, once you start seeing lionfish on your reefs and wrecks it wont be long before that is the ONLY fish you will see.
Kill them all, kill them now!
Not only will they eventually impact our fishing by competing with juvenile grouper and snapper (and ALL other important game fish) for food they will also eat them and simply out breed them as well.
Imagine releasing a pack of African Hyenas in Yellowstone National Park not only would they soon decimate the local deer, elk and bison populations they would also beat out the wolves at the same time and wipe them out as well. They simply do not belong here.
Ask the folks in the Bahamas, once you start seeing lionfish on your reefs and wrecks it wont be long before that is the ONLY fish you will see.
Kill them all, kill them now!
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