KatieMac
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Having watched a moray approach a diver in a slightly frontal manner rather than swimming passively by, I'd rather divers not teach them to eat lionfish - especially off the spear!
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I've read of green moral eels approaching divers in Roatan.
Richard.
Personally, I enjoy hunting ,spearing and...yes, killing Lionfish...since everything underwater seems to eating each other in some form or fashion anyway.
Cozumel is one of the few places I've found that permits divers to carry and use pole spears.
Roatan does as well. I did a little the last time I was there. Much harder than it looks.
I claim to be observing the opposite over the last few years.What's the general consensus on the practice of feeding newly-speared Lionfish to other fish? I have noticed more and more of this, and get the whole rationale (teaching other fish to hunt them, thus helping control the population). But to my admittedly untrained eye, the only result seems to be more and more fish following divers around looking for a meal. I didn't notice it a single time on any of my previous trips, and this year I've seen some version of that on probably 50% of my dives. Obviously it was born of good intentions, but seems like an awfully slippery slope.
Curious what everyone things about this practice.