Lionfish Awareness and Elimination

[annieols]

Hi everyone,
Just a quick pat on my own back here

My PADI Distinctive Outline for a Lionfish Awareness and Elimination Specialty course was just approved this week, and will start running in a couple of days! I put a lot of hard work into it, and am very proud of the outcome! For the moment it is the only course of its kind here on Bonaire, and I cant wait to start teaching and eliminating lionfish!

 

[LakeCountyDiver]

Thats pretty cool it is made into a course. Those things are a bad deal for the reefs here in Florida

 

[BoltSnap]

Congratulations!!! That sounds very unique and worthwhile.

Do you teach about how to capture the fish?

 

[String]

A course on catching and killing fish. Great. Just what we need.

 

[BoltSnap]

String,

I suppose you are a vegetarian and don't eat fish or any type of meat, right?

 

[highdesert]

A course on catching and killing fish. Great. Just what we need.

Actually, a course on controlling an invasive specie with no natural predator, in order to preserve native reef life.

 

[crogue]

Highdesert - Very well stated! Talked to Lad from the REEF organization at the DEMA show last
month and he said the latest studies show that once the lionfish reach a breeding population on
a particular reef, it only takes about 5 weeks for them to reduce the total fish life on that reef
by 85%. They consume juvenile everything and nothing eats them.

 

[BoltSnap]

How are they controlled in their original habitat?

 

[Kern]

How are they controlled in their original habitat?

They aren't, they're just a part of the ecology. People are actually thrilled to see them. They are after all, an interesting & beautiful fish. There are many species.

 

[BoltSnap]

They aren't, they're just a part of the ecology. People are actually thrilled to see them. They are after all, an interesting & beautiful fish. There are many species.

Then why are they causing problems in the Atlantic?