LIONFISH Sightings 2011
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Bratface
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It can be as often as every 4 days. We have a LF management program in the Caribbean and we are pulling fish out of the water nearly every day now.
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SuPrBuGmAn
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They are an invasive species and they are eating all the other beautiful animals that are indigenous on sites they show up at as they have no natural predators here.
I started seeing them in the Ft Lauderdale area about 3 years ago, but it was not common then.
Keep in mind a couple of things:
1. They are wonderful tasting.. yes you need to cut all the spines off, and it is advisable to have a pair of puncture resistant gloves (not cut resistant, the ones use by people handling used needles)
2. Bull sharks will eat them when dead without any issues. In San Salvador, killing them lead to attracting a lot of sharks.
3. A short pole spear without any tangs on the point works really well to just kill them, as you don't have to handle them to get them off.
Oh yes I am aware of this. I was just giving my $.02 I asked my friend in Pensacola if he bagged his and he says he did. He didn't kill any more though.
PerlDiver
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While on our trip to the Keys, the divemaster said that they also destroy the coral reef.
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