Chug thinks it's because of hunting. I don't care one way or the other. I never found them to be all that offensive. Nature finds a balance.
I would refute your posit of my position with a witty insult,
but as you are a retired Navy man,
you already know all the insults,
and are of course guilty of all allegations regarding your lineage, intelligence, character, and um "performance" in many areas.
OK,
I absolutely agree with you Frank that something is eating them.
Whether it is that they are getting picked off in the larval stage, the juvenile stage, or the adolescent stage I just don't know.
But I most certainly do agree with your as yet unproven theory that something is hitting them.
I am ALL IN on that.
I do believe that we are certainly "assisting" with high pressure.
And I absolutely do agree that nature finds a way.
It may take longer than we want it to, but nature always finds a way.
Now....
If we could just figure out how to facilitate the extinction of the anacondas and pythons in the Florida Everglades.
HEY...
I...
KNOW....
Let us hold a Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission sanctioned hunt for these snakes in
February,
Within.....
The 'Glades!!!
That will work.......right?????
Chug
Eagerly awaits the cloning of the Sabretoothed Tiger and Carrier Pigeon.
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So am I understanding correctly that a reason lionfish hunting draws more sharks, etc., than hunting of traditional species is simply that hunters are bagging a LOT more lionfish than other species? If so, I have to say I never thought of that. I had no idea there were that many lionfish and that many people hunting them.
Blood trail.
And in my case....
I make a chum slick with the little ones while submerged, with any of them less than 7"-8" with my shears.
Chug
Sometimes lives dangerously, or foolishly.