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LIONFISH is a 24.57 m Motor Yacht, built in the United States of America by Lazzara and delivered in 2001. She is one of 20 80 SL models.

Her top speed is 27.0 kn, her cruising speed is 24.0 kn, and she boasts a maximum cruising range of 1570.0 nm at 12.0 kn, with power coming from two MTU diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 6 guests in 3 staterooms, with 2 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 109.0 GT and a 5.82 m beam.

She was designed by Lazzara , who also completed the naval architecture and designed the interior. Lazzara has designed 85 yachts, created the naval architecture for 85 yachts, and designed the interior of 25 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

LIONFISH is one of 5798 motor yachts in the 24-30m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her cruising speed is 1.8 kn above the average, and her top speed 0.5 kn above the average.

Specifications

Name: LIONFISH
Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
Yacht Subtype: Semi-displacement
Model: 80 SL
Builder: Lazzara
Naval Architect: Lazzara
Exterior Designer: Lazzara
Interior Designer: Lazzara

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Lion Fish in the Caribbean, What People find so Fascinating!

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Captain Gordon Monsen of S/Y Liberte chartering in the Caribbean brought this to my attention. Gordon had a story about this pest of a fish and the damage it is creating in the Caribbean Sea. This is of great concern to all who love the Caribbean. Lion Fish in the Caribbean is making it to the dinner table.

Here is what Gordon wrote about:

Lion Fish Invasion In The Caribbean Is Getting Worse!

This Super Predator Is Threatening Our Caribbean Coral Reefs…

Indo-Pacific Lionfish are rapidly invading the waters of the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic. Due to their population explosion and aggressive behavior, Lionfish have the potential to become the most disastrous marine invasion in history. Thereby drastically reducing the abundance of coral reef fishes and leaving behind a devastated ecosystem.

This maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean’s warm waters. Swallowing native species, stinging divers, and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.

Reefs Impacted

The Lionfish Invasion is not yet visibly affecting the Northern Caribbean reefs in the areas where we operate. However, the future is somewhat worrying if this problem is allowed to get totally out of hand. Every effort is being made to deal with this predator within the British Virgin Islands and surrounding Islands to keep the situation under control. Local fishermen are rewarded for catching Lionfish. And many local dive operations have been encouraged to catch any Lionfish they see on dives and kill the fish for a reward.

With ongoing conservation efforts throughout the Northern Caribbean, it may be possible to slow this invasion totally and save the reefs and fish from the Lionfish. Only a few Lionfish have been spotted. But the numbers do seem to be increasing slowly. Indeed it is evident that more effort needs to be made to slow the reproduction and spread of the Lionfish within these waters.

The Lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific region, have infiltrated their way into the Caribbean. Their introduction is believed to result from hurricanes and tank releases during the early 1990s.

They have been spotted along the Eastern seaboard spanning as far north as Rhode Island to as far south as Columbia. Protected by venomous spines, lionfish are voracious and effective predators. When hunting, they herd and corner their prey using their pectoral fins, then quickly strike and swallow their prey whole.

With few known natural predators, the lionfish poses a significant threat to coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean region by decreasing the survival of a wide range of native reef animals via both predation and competition. While native grouper may prey on lionfish, they have been overfished and are unlikely to significantly reduce the effects of invasive lionfish on coral reef communities.

Impact on swimmers | Lionfish in the Caribbean

They are not aggressive toward humans, and their sting is not fatal—no available estimates for the number of stung tourists. But marine officials say swimmers will be more at risk as the venomous species overtakes tropical waters along famous Caribbean beaches.

The slow-moving fish, which measures about 18 inches, is easy to snare. However, Lionfish swim too deep for divers to catch in nets. The standard method of dealing with invasive species.

This has forced researchers to figure out what will eat the menacing beauties in their new Caribbean home. They experiment with predators such as sharks, moray eels, and even humans.

Adventurous eaters describe the taste of Lionfish fillets as resembling halibut. But so far, they are a tough sell. Hungry sharks typically veer abruptly away when researchers try to hand-feed them a Lionfish.

One predator that will eat lionfish is the grouper, which is rare in the lionfish’s natural Southeast-Asian habitat. Scientists are pinning long-range hopes on establishing new ocean reserves, which will protect grouper and other lionfish predators from overfishing.

On occasion, researchers witnessed a Lionfish consume 20 small reef fish in 30 minutes. And it is not unusual to observe Lionfish consuming prey up to 2/3 of its length.

In Africa, the Nile Perch rendered more than 200 fish species extinct when it was introduced into Lake Victoria. The World Conservation Union calls it one of the 100 worst alien species invasions.

These Alien Fish Species invasions are common and frequently happen in freshwater, but there has never been a sizeable Predatory invasion in our Oceans before…

Lion Fish Spines

A Lionfish’s spines are venomous, and when they come into contact with humans, they can conflict extreme pain…

Containing the spread of the Lionfish is an uphill fight. Some people believe the best way to eradicate these fish would be to include them on the local Dinner menus. Diners can order Lionfish in the Caribbean for dinner. In addition, the more people want to eat them, the more the local fishing communities will target these invaders. Restaurants could advertise them as their conservation dish.

As lionfish in the Caribbean colonize more territory, they feed on grazing fish that keep seaweed from overwhelming coral reefs. These reefs are buffeted by climate change, pollution, and other environmental pressures.

From Captain Gordon Monsen of S/Y Liberte .

Additional information at NOAA Research

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Lionfish Facts: The 10 Most Common Lionfish Myths Busted!

Posted by Scott Harrell | | Education | 56 |

1. Lionfish carry a deadly poison in their spines.

Lionfish are not poisonous, they are venomous. The difference between poison and venom is the method of delivery. Venom must be injected into the bloodstream to cause injury, such as through a sharp spine or fang, but is harmless if drunk or eaten. Poison has to be ingested or absorbed to be harmful; lionfish carry no poison in the edible meat of the fish.

The venom found in the needle-sharp dorsal, pelvic and anal fins of a lionfish is NOT deadly to an otherwise healthy human being, though envenomation WILL cause an immense amount of localized pain, swelling and, in some instances, blistering and infection if not treated properly. It is possible for some people to have an allergic reaction to the venom, which comes with a host of potentially deadly complications resulting from anaphylactic shock, which could also be caused by any other serious allergy to bee stings or eating shellfish.

Lionfish fact: Lionfish venom is a protein-based, neuromuscular toxin that can be denatured when cooked over 350 degrees for just a short period of time. Heat breaks the proteins down, which is why soaking the affected area in very hot water is also an effective first aid treatment for lionfish stings.

Note, however, cooking lionfish is NOT required. They are NOT poisonous to eat and if you did consume the venom from the spines, nothing is likely to happen.

2. Lionfish can become very aggressive and charge with their spines.

There is no evidence to support the assertion that lionfish are aggressive towards divers or human beings whatsoever. First, I’ve never seen a lionfish become aggressive towards a diver. Normally they just sit there fat, dumb and happy until I put a spear into them. Those that see divers and go into hiding have probably had an injurious encounter with a hunter in the past through through which it lived and learned to avoid divers. Lionfish do use their spines as a defensive mechanism to keep from being eaten and tend to posture themselves when threatened or resting so that they present as many of these spines towards a potential threat as possible. There has been a great deal of video taken of lionfish fighting with one another and they do not “attack” or go on offensive with their spines.

Lionfish fact: Hunters typically get stung by live lionfish when it has been speared and the injured or dying fish is shaking violently to get off of the spear tip. Most lionfish hunters use spears that are less than a meter or 3 feet in length which puts a thrashing fish with dozens of dangerous spines perilously close to the body (or occasionally other divers), especially if it manages to get off of the spear and the fish is blindly trying to get to cover!

3. Lionfish is poisonous or dangerous to eat.

Eating Lionfish Won't Kill You Like Fugu (Puffer fish)

Lionfish Fact: Fresh lionfish can be eaten raw, in ceviche (cooked in citric acid) or cooked any number of ways.

Like all seafood, there is an exception to the above and we would be less than honest if we did not point out one area of concern as it relates to the safety of consuming lionfish: There are areas in the eastern islands of the Caribbean Sea that are considered “hot spots” for ciguatera fish poisoning and over 400 different fish species are known to carry ciguatoxin that can cause ciguatera . It has been documented through scientific study that lionfish can carry the ciguatera toxin, too, thus making them potentially unsafe to eat IN THOSE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREAS of concern. It should be noted that there is not a single documented or suspected case in which a person has contracted ciguatera from eating lionfish . However, while the chances are very low, we feel that any risk of death or serious disease is too much. If you are vacationing on an island where ciguatera is a known risk, you are probably already aware of this danger.

Ever wondered what lionfish tastes like ? They’re DELICIOUS!

4. Lionfish are too small and too bony to eat.

Lionfish can grow to sizes beyond 19 inches or 3 pounds and come in all sizes in between; they aren’t really boney at all. If you do bring up a fish that’s just a bit too small to serve as a whole fillet you can put them into a ceviche, carpaccio, eat them raw (sashimi or sushi) or fry up some fish nuggets; there are plenty of things you can do with small fillets!

Of course, if the DEAD lionfish is not worth the hassle of handling or preparing, you can always leave the fish floating or sinking to the bottom. Numerous fish will find them and eat them and it can be fun to watch from a distance!

REMEMBER: NEVER NEVER NEVER feed a lionfish to a predator from the end of your spear.

Those that do so are encouraging dangerous behavior by training potentially aggressive predators to focus on the point of a spear that is usually only about 3 feet long. You can seriously injure unsuspecting hunters that dive in the area long after this behavior is introduced.

Here is an account of a story in Belize from our Facebook page :

“I had the craziest thing happen to me today on Half Moon Wall after diving the Blue Hole in Belize today… The moray eels, barracuda, groupers and snappers all got VERY, VERY aggressive when I speared lionfish and really fought with each other in the middle of an otherwise inexperienced group of divers. Teeth were everywhere!

The third lionfish I completely stoned but was blind-sided by a 5 or 6 foot barracuda from behind that came, maybe, 1 foot from my head, going at least 20 miles an hour, and tore into the fish at the end of my spear so hard that it ended up taking the entire sling with it. There was no saving the spear. The 4 other lionfish I saw on the rest of the dive gave me the middle finger and, I swear, I heard them laughing at me. When I was talking with the other divemasters on the way back, several of them showed me some serious scars they had all received from the moray eels and barracudas trying to get at the lionfish they had speared and remarked that they were surprised that the sharks didn’t show up, too.

My thoughts: THERE IS NO REASON WHATSOEVER TO BE FEEDING LIONFISH TO ANYTHING ELSE AT THE END OF A SLING OR SPEAR. NONE. THIS CREATES DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR and there is no reason to believe that it is creating predators – just aggressive, opportunistic feeders.”

5. A Lionfish’s poisonous spines make them inedible to other predatory fish.

I watch snapper, grouper, sharks, triggerfish, moray eels and barracuda eat lionfish all of the time – some in one gulp while others chew them up. I cannot tell you how many times I read this and it is simply not true; it would seem that the reason these predators are not regularly eating lionfish is not due to the venom ( not poison ) but because they do not recognize healthy lionfish as prey… however, they all recognize an easy meal!

6. Predators, like grouper, are learning to eat lionfish.

There is ZERO evidence that 1. ANY predators, not just sharks, are hunting and eating healthy and uninjured lionfish without some sort of other stimulus or intervention other than hunger and 2. Potential predators, sharks, groupers, snapper, eels, etc., DO NOT teach other predators or their young to consume lionfish, so any behavior that is learned is relatively short-lived.

Yes, we can get the predators excited by our presence – which animal doesn’t like a free and easy meal? While living and diving in Cozumel, Mexico, I regularly had mutton snapper bird-dogging lionfish for me. They’d find them and point them out but would not get any closer to the lionfish until I speared them. If fish wasn’t large enough to eat, I’d leave the dead or injured lionfish in the water column, away from the safety of the reef, and the snapper would compete with the triggerfish, barracudas and odd grouper for them.

This is NOT predation; this is an underwater entitlement program.

Thinking that the potential predators can be trained is an absolute myth perpetuated by the pretty pictures and the various videos we see of groupers, sharks and snapper eating lionfish. Pictures like this are a red herring not backed up by any science and, I think, causes more harm than good to the general population’s understanding of the truth. Until we are opening up bellies and seeing a gut full of healthy uninjured lionfish on a recurring basis we cannot believe that it is happening. This type of reporting is bad for our conservation efforts because it gives lay people hope that sharks, snappers and groupers are coming to the reef’s and local fisheries’ rescue. They are not. Evolutionary behavioral changes can take thousands, tens of thousands and sometimes, much longer. Some scientist think that we have MAYBE 20 years to find some sort of better solution other than sending divers after them with spears, though it has been found both effective of controlling the lionfish population and beneficial for the rebound of local fish populations when efforts are concentrated in targeted key areas; Cozumel’s Marine Park, is a shining example of just that.

Perhaps the better use of the fish we are feeding to other fish is to bring them to shore and feed them to the local population, thereby alleviating hunger AND teaching them that lionfish are great to eat and better for their fisheries than poaching or decimating the grouper and snapper populations.

[[Author’s note (August 5, 2013)… After starting to see photographic evidence of lionfish in grouper and JUST having had a personal conversation with a local spearfisherman in Aruba in which told me that he watched a black grouper hunt and eat an otherwise healthy and unbothered lionfish, I’m starting to believe that there is some truth here. Grouper MAY be eating more lionfish than we thought – though one recent study found that native fish species are having almost no effect on the total lionfish population. In other words, the findings seem to indicate that they are not eating enough lionfish to really make a difference.]]

7. Lionfish are found in nature and not causing any real harm.

Lionfish are causing so much harm that they may actually cause the complete collapse of many fisheries and reefs. This is probably not the right article to address this patently wrong and misleading statement, but I’ll try to summarize it the best I can. We know, and it is scientifically proven, exactly how BAD lionfish are for the underwater environment in the Western Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

The Lionfish Challenge - Let's Try and Stop Them

To make this very simple: Lionfish are a non-native, invasive species without predator. A single female can lay up to 2 million eggs, which are then dispersed far and wide by ocean currents. They eat almost EVERYTHING in the water that they can get their large mouths around. In fact, they regularly eat fish that are 1/3 their size and their stomachs can expand up to 30 times its normal volume. Using hunting tactics that native fish populations have not evolved to recognize or avoid, lionfish glut themselves with as many fish as they can capture in a single feeding. They are known to eat small schools of up to twenty reef dwelling fish at a time (one scientist noted over 60 prey in one lionfish stomach). Furthermore, studies have proven that one lionfish can reduce the number of all species of fish that it is able to consume by up to 80% within just 5 weeks of establishing its range.

The fish (and lobster, crab and shrimp) that lionfish voraciously and indiscriminately consume all play vital roles in the ecosystem:

some creatures keep the reef healthy by clearing it of algae and other particulate that would otherwise smother and kill the coral;
some creatures keep other fish clean of debris, parasites and disease;
other fish use the reef structure as protection until they become large enough to survive in the open ocean and are consequently usually the most commercially important species of fish.

When populations of these native fish are decimated:

Reefs, which are important for ocean health, global health and human health, die.
Fish die due to the spread of disease and loss of habitat.
Fisherman, families and communities who rely upon harvesting native fish, go broke and go hungry.
Tourist-related businesses (and countries) that rely upon reefs and biodiversity as a draw, suffer enormously.
Populations of people that rely heavily upon a seafood diet suffer due to lower yields, higher prices and greater pressure on other food supplies.

8. Conservation efforts are not having any effect. You’ll never eradicate lionfish completely.

It is true that lionfish are here to stay and we’ll never get rid of them all, huge populations of lionfish are well outside of our reach , but as our friends from the Caribbean Oceanic Restoration and Education Foundation (CORE) like to say, “Trash is also a problem but it’s not like you are going to do nothing about it.“ Trash will continue to accumulate but quality of life significantly improves when it is hauled away and managed properly. The lionfish problem is just like that. Regardless of just how bad the situation sometimes looks, we must NOT GIVE UP!

Lionfish fact: Scientific studies PROVE that where lionfish culls are concentrated and maintained, native fish species will return and rebound in a relatively short amount of time. We MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TOO. KILL LIONFISH (whether you eat them or not)!

9. Lionfish are beautiful and killing them is cruel. We should leave them alone and let nature take its course.

Yes, lionfish are some of the most beautiful fish in all of the oceans but nature doesn’t have enough time to run its course ; evolution can take tens of thousand or millions of years to make the necessary adjustments we need in our lifetimes. If you cannot wrap your brain around why lionfish are a threat to the existence of entire populations of human beings, then I suppose I’m not going to change your opinion. Yes, killing sucks and it is an unfortunate set of circumstances that we cannot herd these lionfish into underwater internment camps where they are safely contained until they can be exported, alive and uninjured, back to their native homeland in the Indo-Pacific. But we can’t. Adopting them into loving homes with beautiful aquariums where they can be happy and healthy isn’t going to work either.

If leaving them in waters, where they are non-native, is clearly not an option, then they must be removed – just like a single weed that threatens an entire garden must be plucked from the earth. They’re fish and when we take them out of the water they die – it just works that way. The only practical method to remove lionfish from the water is by spearing them; at least this way they tend to die faster and remain in a good enough condition so that they can be eaten.

So… get over it.

10. I’m not a diver or I don’t live in a place affected by lionfish, so I cannot be of any help.

EVERYONE CAN HELP MANAGE THE LIONFISH POPULATION!!! There are many things you can (and should) do:

Spread the word!
Share educational lionfish-related posts from reputable sources via your social networks. ( Share this post now before you forget! )
DON’T promote or applaud dangerous lionfish-related behavior (like feeding lionfish to potentially dangerous predators from the end of a spear).
Promote the consumption of lionfish; eat it, ask for lionfish at your favorite seafood restaurant (especially when it is not on the menu) and suggest it to your friends!
Volunteer to help do anything at a lionfish derby.
Donate to organizations that promote lionfish management and conservation; scuba equipment, lionfish hunting gear, fuel for boats and air compressors aren’t exactly inexpensive!

Most importantly, please don’t turn a blind eye to the lionfish problem. It affects us all!

We need to educate entire populations, correct misinformation that is being perpetuated and promote lionfish as a desirable and sustainable source of seafood that cannot possibly be over-fished or bad for the environment. Yes, it seems contrary to typical conservation ideals, but over-fishing or crashing the lionfish population would be a good thing. Whether you like to eat fish or not, we are all affected by the health of our reef systems.

Want to learn how to hunt lionfish in a hands on course with the experts? T he non-profit group Ennds.org conducts regular lionfish training programs with hands on diving under supervision.

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56 comments.

Correction: Pectorals DO NOT CONTAIN spines. Second Paragraph to # 1 above: “The venom found in the needle-sharp dorsal, pectoral and anal fins of a lionfish . . .”

Correction to your correction: “The venom of the red lionfish may be delivered by spines of the dorsal, anal and pelvic fins… ”

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/RedLionfish/RLionfish.html

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/stories/lionfish/lion04_biology.html

“The lionfish’s sharp, slender spines are located on the dorsal, anal, and pelvic fins. The venom is a combination of protein, a neuromuscular toxin, and a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.”

I started a change.org petition to try and get restaurants to start serving lionfish. I’ve been searching for 3 years to get lionfish and even the places that have been posted on this website are not serving it ☹️. I went to the Bahamas recently and no restaurants were serving it. Please sign my petition and pass it around. https://www.change.org/p/let-us-eat-lionfish

Love what you are doing but need to talk about point 6 above – we HAVE witnessed sharks going after healthy lionfish and no we were not spearing nor was there any spears in the water – the shark was not sucessful but it definately tried…

I have witnessed green morays and queen triggers attack, catch and consume lionfish that were not speared on the island of utila

You are SO RIGHT, Jerry! Thank you very much for bringing that error to my attention. I meant to write pelvic and NOT pectoral fin and has been corrected. “Warts and all.”

Stephanie: Where did you witness this and when? While I am EXTREMELY happy to hear of this possibility, I am with the scientists on this one… when we start seeing gut-fulls of uninjured lionfish in sharks, I’ll start believing they are honest-to-God predators. I am a bit skeptical simply because lionfish remain so close to the safety of reef and structure that it is unlikely that they can be ambushed by most sharks – but I do remain hopeful and open-minded!

Are predators eating lionfish?

Scott, It appears that grouper in the Gulf of Mexico have skipped the normal evolutionary process and have figured out how to eat the spiny suckers on their own!

http://www.news-press.com/article/20120514/GREEN/305140006/Are-predators-eating-lionfish-

That was some of the best news I’ve read in a long time! I hope that scientific study bears it out that the Goliath groupers are in fact the cause of the lower lionfish populations in those areas where the grouper is thriving. I am an eternal optimist but I am still waiting for scientists to find gut-fulls of dead (but otherwise uninjured lionfish) in a predator’s stomach before really buying into it.

But aren’t “Goliath” Groupers an Invasive species eating all the reef fish a problem on their own??? They are protected by the US Gov like Manatees Normally called “Jewfish”, they grow very large.400+ lbs… and suck up other grouper and anything that gets near them…

Now Goliath Grouper are not invasive. But they are getting the blame for the Lionfish problem. Lionfish are smaller and as stated eat everything. They fed on frye in the millions that a grouper could never hope to reach. But the grouper feed on Lionfish as they grow and have less area to hide in. At least in U.S. waters they are native and there is much video evidence and research showing their place in the food chain.

I’ll be in St Croix all next week shooting the little varmints.

Scott, I have been working on a Lionfish documentary for quite some time, and I agree with almost all of your assertions. This was a well-done article, and I would like to ask permission to reference parts of it. Like you, I am tired of hearing exceedingly bad information being touted as gospel truth.

Paul, no problem whatsoever. Thank you for whatever credit back to the WLHA you see fit to give as well. I look forward to seeing your documentary one day soon! If you have a difference of opinion on points of my article or something you’d like to add, please let me know. I don’t know everything and see this as a living document that can always use refinement or updating.

Excellent article Scott, thank you. So I routinely read, and hear from other divers, that these are non-native fish, so how about a little history? Can you tell us how non-native fish ended up where they don’t belong? I should think the common thought would be a pet was let go and somehow found purchase in our part of the ocean (Florida for me). Where are they native?

There are a few ways they have arrived in various areas. Some thoughts are pets being released in the ocean. They are native to the Indo Pacific. The most reasonable theory to their invasion is when the large tankers (container ships, Cargo Vessels, Oil Tankers ect.) these boats actually pump thousands of gallons of water into the boat at port to ballast the boat (sink it into the water a bit) while sucking water into the ships holding tanks, lionfish can get sucked up along with the water. Then when the boat pulls into the various ports around the world (obviously there are some much more frequently visited than others ie. Florida and the Caribbean islands), they pump the water out into the local waters of that port. The lionfish are then introduced to the new area. Lionfish have been found well into the ICW in Florida nearly all the way to Lake Okeechobee. It is a very serious problem, and thanks to people like Scott, more information is getting out there to help battle this invasion. Oh ya, and they do taste great much like hogfish. I kill everyone I see and eat everyone worth filleting. I have found the best way to catch them without getting stuck, is to bring a pair of shears or scissors down with me and just cut off all of their fins while theyre still immobilized on the paralizer tip of my pole spear. Good luck! Eat a lion fish

I’ve witnessed Yellowtail Snappers eat healthy, uninjured, small lionfish on two different occasions. Both times I was maneuvering aquarium nets into place to capture a small lionfish, and a Yellowtail Snapper got impatient and darted in and ate the lionfish.

I totally agree we shouldn’t be offering dead lionfish to morays or other fish. Unfortunately, so many of the Yellowtail Snappers have come to associate us hunters with an easy meal that they follow us on almost every dive, and the instant we shoot a lionfish, a snapper darts in and grabs it off the spear. They’ve become a real nuisance.

You might be interested to hear that my brother-in-law saw a lionfish off the southern Florida coast in the 1970’s. The divemaster told him that he had seen lionfish there before, but they didn’t seem to survive the winters.

Hello Scott,

I am interested in finding a source to import Lion Fish meat into Oregon in order to gain more acceptance in restaurants. Do you, your colleagues or your readers have any information for a good source for import?

Thank you, Jae Oregon

I’d first try Traditional Fisheries – they can be found at http://www.traditionalfisheries.com/ . You can also get in touch with the people at Sea to Table at http://sea2table.com/

This would be a very solid start. If that doesn’t work, I also have personal contacts in Mexico that might pan out, but it would be a bit more complicated as they are not as well set up as these two other established providers.

Best of luck and thanks for supporting the cause!

Scott Harrell, Executive Director World Lionfish Hunters Association

hey jae. I live in the caribbean and catch hundreds of lionfish. I would be happy to supply you any amount needed. Let me know if you are interested

I made the following change to the article above…

[[Editor’s note (August 5, 2013)… After starting to see photographic evidence of lionfish in grouper and JUST having had a personal conversation with a local spearfisherman in Aruba in which told me that he watched a black grouper hunt and eat an otherwise healthy and unbothered lionfish, I’m starting to believe that there is some truth here. Grouper MAY be eating more lionfish than we thought – though one recent study found that native fish species are having almost no effect on the total lionfish population. In other words, the findings seem to indicate that they are not eating enough lionfish to really make a difference.]]

The study I cited can be found here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068259

I recently returned home from Belize where I spent two weeks as a volunteer, working with an NGO (ReefCI)that is focused on coral reef ecosystem conservation. One of their projects is aimed at lionfish control. They spear as many lionfish as possible on every dive and are promoting lionfish to local restaurants. They are also dissecting 20 lionfish per week (sample from the roughly 200 they spear each week) and are providing data on size, sex, and stomach content to the Belize Fisheries Department.

As you undoubtably are aware, one of the challenges in trying to promote lionfish as a commercial fishery is the difficulty of catching them (spearing as opposed to nets or lines). Unless the economic return to fisherman can be increased, they prefer to focus on other species which they can catch using traditional methods.

While we were dissecting lionfish one day last week, I was thinking about the problem of how to incentivize fisherman to go after them. I was looking at the dissected fish carcasses, particularly at the spines, and for some reason a vision of porcupine quill jewelry popped into my head. I asked the project marine biologist whether anyone had thought about using the lionfish spines in some way. He wasn’t aware of any such use, but thought it to be a very interesting ideas. He and I collected and cleaned and dried a couple hundred spines, which ReefCI is going to give to some local artisans to see if they might be able to do something with them. I provided photos ( thanks to Google) of a number of porcupine jewelry items. I personally spoke to one artisan (from a Mayan community) who is already making jewelry from shells and fish bones. He was really excited about the lionfish spine idea.

Anyway, I’m reaching out to the Lionfish Hunters community to ask whether anyone is aware of any other initiatives to use lionfish spines for jewelry or other purpose. If yes, I’d really like to learn more.

Phil Karp Chevy Chase, Maryland

I’ve seen a few artists making jewelry from lionfish… the one that immediately comes to mind is Maria Andreu Hickerson. You can see some of her work at http://www.lionfishhunting.com/lionfish-jewelry-c-16/seaglass-lionfish-earrings-p-68.html

“Save the Reef, Wear a Lionfish!”

Thanks Scott

I did see the site. It seems that Maria is using the tails rather than spines. Any idea why?

No idea whatsoever other than maybe aesthetics. Keep in mind that most lionfish spines are sharper than a hypodermic needle.

Hi Scott, I and a friend live in the Dominican Republic. I’m a Peace Corps volunteer. I’ve got my diving certs (second time, here, a year ago) but we both want to hunt lion fish on the reefs here without scuba… using just mask and snorkel. In the shallow reefs during my diving cert work we saw many lion fish. They should be easy to get to without gear. But I imagine there are other practical considerations I have to consider.

What are your recommendations about this? We have lion tamers coming and I’m looking for a pole with a paralizer tip. I’ve been researching this and your site (10 myths) has been the best information I’ve found that actually informs usefully about the hazards and realities of hunting lion fish. Thanks for putting together that website. I’d like to know more about how the venom is delivered, too. Are the spines pulsed at contact? I think they’re not projected. I think using scissors or shears is the best way to remove the spines. how much of the spine has to be removed to make the fish safe to handle? Anything else I’ve forgotten to ask? This is my second set of diving certifications. Long ago (old equipment) I dove on the Great Barrier Reef. I had one tank. After I used I had the rest of the afternoon on the diveboat or…so I went in with the mask and snorkle. I got far more time on the reef than any of the other divers that day because I was diving without the tank. it was all shallow water….dowen to about 15 feet, of course, but that’s where the colors are the best.

I was thinking of using a buoyancy compensator for safety and convenience while handling the fish. We’d have a dive marker/float to which we’ll hang net bags to keep the fish in. I imagine diving, finding a fish, rising for air going back down to spear it, coming up and disarming the fish on the surface then putting it in the bag. We might get enough for dinner this way. There were lots of lion fish when i was training. The reef is a way out but with mask snorkle and flippers and a relaxed attitude, it should be a fine afternoon. I’m planning on protecting myself from sunburn. I’ll wear rashguard top long sleeve with gloves to protect my hands.

What else need I consider?

As a PCV I don’t have the money to dive with SCUBA. That’s just the unfortunate fact of being in the Peace Corps. All safety information and links you can provide are greatly appreciated. We’d like to go diving like this, if it’s practical and safe, often.

First what I think you are planning to do, freediving to hunt lionfish, is awesome and I appreciate the fact that you and your partner will be joining the fight soon.

About your choice in spears: Personally, I would go with a pole spear; I’ve seen the videos of the lion tamer and think that my hands would be just way too close for comfort prior to shooting the lionfish. Additionally, I use a Zookeeper lionfish containment device or a prototype made from a five gallon water jug to safely store my catch during the dive and there really would be no practical way to transfer the lionfish from the lion tamer in through the funnel.

Venom is delivered when a spine causes a puncture wound. The venom coats the spines underneath the fleshy outer skin. When the spines enters the skin the sheath is pushed back and venom enters the wound – sort of like tipping a dart or arrowhead with poison. The spines remain intact with the lionfish and are not projected.

Many lionfish hunters who use catch nets or hooks to save lionfish during the dive do cut away the venomous spines in order to avoid personal injury. Since you are freediving, time underwater (air and NDL considerations) isn’t necessarily an issue; just be careful. I like to use the “trauma shears” that paramedics typically carry since they cut through the tough spines easier than kitchen scissors and my hand stays farther away from the spines during the process. Ideally you should cut the spines as close to the body as you are able. I start at the front and remove the dorsal spines along the back first, then remove the non-venomous pectoral fins to get them out of the way, then completely cut away each pelvic fin where one venomous spine is at the front, before finishing the job with the anal fin while minding the 3 small venomous spines at the leading edge.

I always advocate the use of a flotation device at the surface while freediving for long periods.

I cannot think of anything you might have forgotten at this point but have a look at the FAQ I posted yesterday, just in case. https://lionfish.co/lionfish-faq

Be safe and HAVE FUN! Don’t hesitate to take photos of your catch and send them in to us or post them to our Facebook page.

What about 3d artwork. The spines would be used to decorate a painting or picture of a lion fish for a wall or trophy?? I see stuff like this all the time in other areas.

I speared a few lionfish in the Bahamas and took their spines home for Martini Olive Spears. Although I have cleaned and dried the spines – I don’t know how long they are venomous. (That martini would pack quite a punch!). Anyway – do you know how long the venom is viable and how to remove the venom if necessary?

The venom is denatured quite quickly with a little bit of heat… I usually bake spines at 300(f) for 10 minutes.

Hi Scott. Fascinating reading for me with long standing interest in hazardous marine life. I’ve been picking up on the problem with lion fish in the Atlantic. As far as I know, this problem doesn’t seem to be prevalent in the Indian or Pacific region. We have them here in South Africa but not in such huge numbers. We have other fish stock problems but not related to LF at all. I’ve been diving for 29 yrs & well plugged into the dive industry for past 18 yrs as a DAN trainer and have not heard of the same phenomenon in the Indian Ocean. Is this hunting /eradication campaign only in the Atlantic region?

Hi Sean, Yes, lionfish are only considered invasive in the Western Atlantic Basin (W. Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico). There have been numerous reports in the last several months about pterois in the Mediterranean Sea, where they would also be considered an invasive.

Could I make money hunting lionfish? What is the price they are going for if you hunt them ? I’m thinking of moving to Belize and hunting lionfish as my source of income, is this a reasonable idea?

Excellent post on myths! Will take this to use in my educational campaigns here in Belize. Thanks!

#2 Lionfish not being aggressive to divers… I was diving off Ras Muhammed some years ago. One of the men in my dive group was a practical joker who loved teasing me. As I headed toward the beach to end my dive several very annoyed lion fish were blocking my way. He had harassed them as he passed to get out of the water and left the angry fish for me to deal with. They didn’t chase me though, just made me continue my dive out deeper and then up the beach to get out.

I’m passing your article around my friends, thanks.

I am in Utila Honduras at the moment and never before in 30 years of diving, have I seen so few fish and so many lion fish! Although there are more than 12 dive operators here, I have not witnessed a single killing of a lion fish after numerous dives. The divemasters and instructors leave them alone. Hence no reef fish here in Utila to speak of. I have also not seen much fish for sale and no lion fish. The dive shops who depend on the reef should be encourAging the locals to fish and eat them, rather than decimate what’s left of the reef fish population.

Lionfish are an invasive species, Florida Keys has been seeing way too many. We are encouraging fish for lionfish and make them a delicacy. Some restaurants serve lionfish: Mrs. Mac’s Kitchen (Key Largo), The Fish House Encore (Key Largo), Key Largo Conch House (Key Largo) ,Chef Micheal’s (Islamorada), Lazy Days Restaurant (Islamorada), Ziggy and Mad Dog’s (Islamorada), Castaway Waterfront Restaurant & Sushi Bar (Marathon), Square Grouper(Cudjoe Key). So far, Key West Restaurants hasn’t caught up yet in the lionfish craze. Bon Appétit!

Why aren’t groupers and sharks who ingest lionfish affected by the venomous spines?

Are there resections/prohibitons on kill and release of Lion Fish?

http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/marine-species/lionfish/faqs/

any suggestions on how to catch lionfish w/rod & reel ?

Dear Scott,

I wanted to add my testimony that predators are starting to learn to eat healthy lionfish unassisted. I lived in Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras for 2 and a half years starting in February 2012 however my first visit there was in 2010 for 10 weeks to do my Divemaster course. The first sightings of Lionfish in Roatan were in 2009 and when I was there, they were everywhere. Not only that but the lionfish in its natural environnement in the Indo-Pacific is very territorial but it was typical for us to see 5, 6 even up to 7 or 8 individuals in the same coral patch. The numbers were actually pretty staggering. Every once in a while we would go on specific dives to cull our most popular dive sites and although its unscientific it seemed to us that this helped keep the numbers down. When I came back in 2012 one of the first things I noticed right away was that the numbers of lionfish had come down substantially. Some dives I wouldn’t see any at all but I did notice that the ones we spotted were deeper and deeper. Over my time in Roatan I did over a thousand dives and starting in 2014 I started observing large groupers stalking lionfish with more frequency. None of these times were any of the divers spearing for lionfish. Then for the first time on a dive to a dive site called Texas on the western tip of the island I observed a large Nassau Grouper persue a lionfish and proceed to swallow it hole. I was overjoyed as you could imagine however I didn’t have my camera to take video. I’ve observed groupers eating lionfish on several more occasions but never when I was filming. But I can tell you it is happening and very much as I had though it would over time since the lionfish have been reducing the number of other fish they have become a victim of their own success since their numbers turned them into an easy food source for the predators on this reef. Since most of the western part of the island is protected by the Roatan Marine Park there are many larger predators such as groupers that can easily eat lionfish and not be bothered by their venom.

I can see this trend continuing in reefs where there are MPA’s letting nature bring back a measure of balance. There are videos that are starting to surface of just what I’ve described and I suspect there will be more in the future.

Dear scott Why are lionfish veomous and not poisonous because lionfish use venom as a defence mechanism but that is what poison is mostly used for?

It’s considered ‘poison’ when it is ingested or eaten and sickens you. It’s ‘venom’ when it is injected, such as with the lionfish spines. The meat of the lionfish is perfectly safe and delicious to eat, so it is not poisonous.

Hi, just recently finished a trip to Bahia Honda State Park in the Keys. My son pole speared a small lionfish. We cut off its head and tossed it back into the water. Got me wondering what is happening to spines of the dead fish and all the spines being snipped off underwater. Will these be washing up in areas where people might step on them?

Hi Ethan, no, the venom in the spines loses its strength after a short time. Freshly clipped they can sting you, but by the time they washed ashore they would not be a problem.

Please keep up your good work ! The governments of all the affected areas must be blind . Private interests can’t bear the brunt of this invasion alone . I live in south Florida , have fished ( recreational and commercial ) all my life and have watched the federal and state government drag their feet through every problem dealing with the ecology and the environment . Thirty years after the first sightings of lionfish in south florida , there are hardly enough fish left to make it worth going fishing except when migrating fish happen by ! Why not put a 5 dollar bounty on every lionfish ( and let the harvester keep it too ) that way more people could concentrate on catching them . also develop new gear to catch the small ones before they can spawn

$5 bounty per fish?!? Not with taxpayer money.. you should donate all your property to the FWC so they can do that for you, sounds great.

After reading the other comments , I am happy to learn about the grouper eating the lionfish . Probably don’t have much else to eat ! Do the math guys .The lionfish spawn as often as every four days and the grouper spawn once and the lion fish eat the baby grouper and the baby everything else ! Nature isn’t going to solve this . I also notice that most of the comments showing any reduction in the lionfish populations are in a localized environment ( an island with a finite area that divers can see the changing conditions and also the affect of local programs to reduce populations ).What they don’t see is what is happening in the areas that the lionfish eggs drift to before they hatch ( 30 days ) . GET Government involved ! THANKS everyone !

I will be doing a cooking and educational demonstration for our guest of coconut bay resort st Lucia at 11 a.m on the coconut bay resort face book live page Saturday August ,4.Please join in if you like .As an executive chef it is my duty to educate the public to eat these invasive creatures .i have seen first hand the dwindling fish stocks in the recent years and the unbelievable infestation of lion fish in the Caribbean. We all need to get together and …EAT THEM TO BEAT THEM… See you all tomorrow.

I will be doing a cooking and educational demonstration for our guest of st Lucia at 11 a.m on the coconut bay resort face book live page Saturday August ,4.Please join in if you like .As an executive chef it is my duty to educate the public to eat these invasive creatures .i have seen first hand the dwindling fish stocks in the recent years and the unbelievable infestation of lion fish in the Caribbean. We all need to get together and …EAT THEM TO BEAT THEM… See you all tomorrow.

I am soo using this for homwork!

I bet if no one kills another lion fish ever. Absolutely nothing will happen. Everything will be fine. The ocean won’t die. People won’t be affected. Nothing.

I’m going to say that a bigger danger to our oceans than lion fish are cruise ships. They pollute, scuttle about, fat and happy, eating everything in sight with an eye for ocean delicacies. Instead of encouraging vigilantes to hunt lion fish, maybe they and jellyfish need to start appearing on the cruise ship menus. A thought.

Maybe the best way to kill them all is to develop a species specific pathogen. Seems like a better method. I mean, that’s what toon’s of microbiologists are doing to kill off humans. Why not fish, too?

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Forever young lionfish hunting charters in the florida keys, become an environmental conservationist.

Lionfish hunting is good for the environment because the removal of lionfish ensures that our native fish populations are sustainable from one generation to the next. As a Lionfish hunter, you will support conservation by protecting the Florida Keys natural underwater resources, habitats, and species.

How You Can Help and Have Fun!

Join us on a trip of a lifetime by Hunting Lionfish and protecting the Florida Keys for generations to come. Lionfish hunting is the most thrilling way to explore the aquatic world while enjoying your dive. All Lionfish charters are fully dedicated to the education and eradication of lionfish. One of our Lionfish experts will accompany you in the water to ensure a successful and safe hunt. We navigate the dive sites, locate lionfish, and ensure everyone dives safely. Aside from hunting lionfish, there is an array of beautiful marine life to enjoy on your dive!

Your private Lionfish Charter begins at the Islamorada Marina, located in beautiful Islamorada Florida. Our vessel, the Forever Young, is a well maintained 32′ express that is designed for your comfort and safety. Before leaving the dock, we will set up your dive gear and have you sign a short waiver. All dive and lionfish hunting equipment is included. We also provide snacks, water, and cold beer for the ride back in. Our vessel has plenty of room, feel free to bring any equipment or food/drinks of your own.

The Lionfish Hunting Experience

Before we start, we will go over the safety rules, get you familiar with how to properly use the equipment, teach you the best lionfish hunting techniques, and give you a fun education on lionfish biology! You will become lionfish hunting experts before the trip is done. Once at the dive site, you will be briefed on the location and we will go over the dive profile together. Your private in water lionfish guide will accompany you on every dive. Your guide is there to handle all of the in-water logistics of the dive, you just simply relax and enjoy the hunt!

We will be taking videos and photos with our new GoPro Hero 8 black. We also have a Sony a7R11 for higher quality professional photos and video, this professional package is an additional $100 per charter.

Lionfish Counting and Cleaning

Once we are done, we count how many lionfish we caught and make a record for research purposes. Back at the dock, we clean the lionfish for you. We teach you how to clean and educate you on lionfish biology, so you can understand what they eat and why they have so few predators. You also can see how to properly remove the spines, which are used locally to make Lionfish jewelry. Lionfish are not poisonous, they are venomous. Lionfish carry venom in their spines and their meat is 100% delicious and safe to eat. The best part of your hunting experience is the fresh meal it provides!

Lionfish Hunting Package Pricing

Half-day (2 dives, 4 hours, $850)

Three-Quarter day (3 dives, 6 hours, $1100)

Full-day (4 dives, 8 hours, $1300)

Forever Young is the Florida Keys very best when it comes to hunting Lionfish!
Forever Young works closely with Reef Environmental Education Foundation. They are a local non-profit that is leading Lionfish research in the Florida Keys and the greater Caribbean. We have worked closely with REEF over the years to help them find and study Lionfish on numerous research projects.
REEF also hosts a series of Lionfish derbies in Florida. In 2019, we won our local derbies and also won the overall derby for the state of Florida. We eliminated a record 395 lionfish in just one derby.
Forever Young is proud to be a partner with Lionfish Central, a global nonprofit that helps nonprofits, as well as for profits to ensure they are successful at removing lionfish. We have worked closely with Lionfish Central over the years to help them on a number of projects in the fight of the invasive lionfish.
The Forever Young Crew makes Lionfish hunting fun for divers and educational for everyone! We love what we do and enjoy nothing more than sharing our passion with other divers. Join us for an experience of a lifetime, we look forward to hunting with you!

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Lionfish Nachos

You may have heard the terms “bycatch” or “trash fish”, and that Lionfish is an invasive species that’s threatening the ecosystem and stability of our Gulf Coast. We need to spear as many of them as we can, and thankfully, Lionfish are quite tasty, so they won’t go to waste. Talk to your local chefs that serve Lionfish to see if they can source you the fish whole or filets. And, if Lionfish is hard to come by in your area, try substituting Flounder.

This recipe comes from Executive Chef Chris Sherill of the Flora Bama Yacht Club located in Perdido Key on the Alabama/Florida Gulf Coast.

1 pound boneless, skinless Lionfish filets (or substitute Flounder) 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 pack Asian wonton wraps 4 ounces wasabi powder 1 cup creole mustard 1 cup water 1 cup mayo 2 cups Sriracha hot sauce 1 cup mayo 1 cup roasted red peppers, chopped 1/2 cup banana peppers, chopped 1/2 cup green onions, chopped 1/2 cup red onions, diced 2 cups seaweed salad (from the Asian market)

Preparation

Season Lionfish to taste with salt and granulated garlic.

With a skillet on high, sear and very quickly sauté the Lionfish fillets in the oil. Make sure that the Lionfish are rare.

Set aside on a plate in a cooler or refrigerator.

Wonton Nachos:

Cut wonton wraps into triangles and fry at 350 degrees until crisp.

Place on paper towels to drain and set aside.

Wasabi Drizzle:

Mix wasabi powder into water until dissolved.

Mix wasabi in with with creole mustard, sugar, and 1 cup mayo, then set aside.

Spicy Mayo:

Mix Sriracha hot sauce and 1 cup mayo well, then set aside.

Remove Lionfish from cooler, slice ultra thin and split into four portions.

Plate a pile of wonton nachos. Place lionfish on top of nachos. Garnish with chopped peppers and onions. Drizzle a small amount of each sauce onto the nachos. Top with seaweed salad.

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LIONFISH DESTINATIONS: Fort Lauderdale

In our quest to expunge invasive lionfish from the Western Atlantic, we’ve landed in Fort Lauderdale – South Florida’s premier diving destination.

There’s a difference between hopefully searching for lionfish and hunting for lionfish. You may still be hopefully searching, but this series will get you hunting in no time. So grab your Zookeeper and a spear , this lionfish destination is waiting for you.

Hunting Lionfish in Fort Lauderdale

Admittedly, we do live here – so we may be a bit biased. But I promise you, there is a reason we call Fort Lauderdale home.

And that’s because the diving is exceptional. A three tier coral reef system combined with 76 shipwrecks and counting; the waters of Fort Lauderdale are essentially an underwater playground !

It provides divers like you plenty to see and plenty to do. In fact, you may never get bored and who knows? You might not leave if you visit! That’s something I can attest to.

But the cherry on top for Fort Lauderdale is the plethora of underwater hunting opportunities. Fresh seafood is served up on a nightly basis. Particularly, lobster and that pesky invasive species, lionfish !

In fact, the underwater landscape is running rampant with lionfish and the deep coral reefs are some of the most fertile hunting grounds in Florida !

HOT TAKE : If lionfish are bad for the environment, why do we rejoice when we find them? Or sulk when we don’t? It’s an interesting paradox we discuss here .

Where is Fort Lauderdale?

Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades, Fort Lauderdale is a major city apart of the larger Miami-metro area. It’s famous for its cruise port, extensive waterways , and dazzling coral reef steps from shore .

Additionally, Fort Lauderdale is home to one of the busiest airports in the United States (FLL). Flights on Skyscanner are usually cheap to fly direct into town.

fort lauderdale beach view from the water

Who to Dive With in Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale is home to two main dive charters: Sea Experience and American Dream . A few other small operations run dive trips out of the port too, but booking a trip with one or the other should get you where you need to go.

READ MORE: Finding You the Best Dive Shop in Fort Lauderdale

sea experience dive boat in fort lauderdale on calm seas

Booking your hunting trip

As I mentioned earlier, Fort Lauderdale is home to a three tier coral reef system – a small sliver of the larger Florida Reef Tract . Beginning near shore, each tier progressively descends – culminating to “Third Reef” which extends between 60 and 100 feet below the surface. This is where the lionfish live.

Both dive charters run weekly trips to this section of reef. Just call each shop and ask for a hunting trip to “Third Reef” – they’ll know exactly what you’re talking about.

lionfish on coral reef on deep dive in fort lauderdale

Best Dive Sites to find Lionfish in Fort Lauderdale

What we’ve found while diving in South Florida is popular dive sites often contain less lionfish. Fort Lauderdale is no different.

I mean, it makes sense. More divers = more hunters = less lionfish. A good problem to have. But not if you want to hunt!

So when booking, avoid any popular shipwrecks as they’re usually picked clean of lionfish (obviously, that’s not to say you can’t find any there) . Rather, select deep coral reefs in the 60 – 100′ range.

Why? It’s an immense amount of habitat that’s lightly trafficked. And even if it is highly trafficked, those pesky lionfish always seem to make a comeback regardless!

Specifically, our favorite sites are Hammerhead Reef and the Mercedes . Although the Mercedes is a popular shipwreck, the surrounding coral reef seems to replenish the invasive species on cue.

woman with lionfish on her spear while scuba diving

What Lionfish Hunting Gear to Bring

These are the few pieces of gear we recommend using when hunting lionfish:

What to Expect: Recapping Our Experience

DISCLOSURE : We are affiliated with a local dive shop in town and get to dive the reefs often. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to showcase what a hunting trip would look like if you were to climb aboard Sea Experience or American Dream.

Hunting the dive sites

The most often visited section of Third Reef is Hammerhead Reef. It’s close. It’s convenient. And it’s packed full of lionfish.

The winding spur and groove channels give lionfish – and other marine life – an immense amount of habitat. Small ledges, cracks, crevices, and fields of colorful coral line each groove with fish, eels, sea turtles, and sharks often nestled amidst the landscape.

Spur and groove formations are a geomorphic feature of many coral reefs. They are ridges of reef formed by coral “spurs” separated by channels “grooves” which often have sediment or rubble bed. Wikipedia’s definition of Spur and Groove Formations

These are the spots we like to start our hunt – towards the east and deep. Like 80 – 90 feet deep. Just make a request to the Captain to drop you off on this section – they’ll happily oblige.

After descending and getting your bearings straight, follow along a spur and groove formation westward ( shoreward ) picking off any lionfish you encounter. You’ll get progressively shallower eventually dropping off a prominent ledge. This is the main section of Hammerhead Reef – and one of the most beautiful reef structures in all of South Florida.

By now, you’ve likely bagged a few lionfish with plenty of room for more. And good news – swimming along the ledge is certain to reveal a fruitful harvest. They’re everywhere .

Scan the ledge up and down, side to side, and front to back. You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ll discover a previously unnoticed lionfish simply by looking behind me – the alternate vantage point tends to reveal new hiding spots.

Now what you do for your second dive is entirely up to the Captain of the day. Sometimes, you’ll double dip on Hammerhead Reef. Other days, you’ll head to the shallower, nearby Barracuda Reef .

If possible, we highly recommend asking for a double dip on the deeper reefs after a short surface interval. They’re much more fruitful for lionfish than the shallower reefs in the area.

Good luck and have fun!!

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LIONFISH DESTINATIONS: Fort Lauderdale Final Thoughts

We want you to stop hopefully searching for lionfish and start hunting them – Fort Lauderdale is a great place to start!

Sure, you have the artificial reefs in the Florida panhandle where you can walk up and slaughter dozens of lionfish at a time. But here in Fort Lauderdale, and South Florida in general, it feels like an actual hunt.

You need vision, instinct, and a hunting prowess. It’s a challenge. And a rewarding one, at that. So next time you’re looking for a lionfish hunting destination, consider Fort Lauderdale. Our coral reefs are depending on you!

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ICYMI: Governor DeSantis Highlights Coral Reef Conservation Efforts and Enhancements to the 2024 Lobster Mini-Season and the 2024 Lionfish Challenge

MARATHON, Fla.— Today, Governor Ron DeSantis highlighted Florida’s investments in coral reef protection and announced enhancements to the 2024 Lionfish Challenge and 2024 Lobster Mini-Season. Through the FY 2024-2025 Focus on Florida’s Future Budget, the Governor invested a historic $57 million for coral reef restoration and coastal protection, bringing the total investment in these efforts in the Governor’s second term to over $114 million.

The Governor also highlighted $5 million in funding to create additional artificial reef habitats through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). This funding will support the establishment of an innovative framework for installing, overseeing, and preserving artificial reef habitats in the Florida Keys.

And earlier this year, Governor DeSantis allocated $9.5 million to Florida's Coral Reef Restoration and Recovery Initiative.

This year’s investments in coral reefs through the Florida state budget exceed the total investment requested by the Biden administration for coral reef restoration across the entire United States.

“Florida has the best fishing and boating in the world because we have the greatest natural resources,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. "That’s why our state is making record investments in protecting our natural treasures, like our coral reefs. Additionally, I was pleased today to announce additional prizes for the annual Lionfish Challenge and an extra day for Floridians to harvest lobster.”

“From lobstering to world-class fishing, the Keys exemplify Florida as the Boating and Fishing Capital of the World," said FWC Executive Director Roger Young. “Through Governor DeSantis’ support of conserving our natural resources, we will continue to promote the removal of invasive species—such as the lionfish—that negatively impact our waters.”

The Governor also announced that in addition to the 2024 recreational spiny lobster mini-season that will be Wednesday, July 24, and Thursday, July 25, an additional day will be added Sunday, July 14, exclusively for Florida residents. The regular commercial and recreational lobster season will begin on August 6, 2024, and end on March 31, 2025.

Finally, to combat the threat posed by invasive lionfish, Governor DeSantis spotlighted the 2024 Lionfish Challenge that is running through September 2, 2024. This statewide program allows the public to engage in conservation by hunting lionfish to win prizes and contribute to protecting Florida’s natural resources.

Participants can register at FWCReefRangers.com and choose to join either the recreational or commercial category. Since 2014, over one million lionfish have been removed from Florida’s oceans through the Lionfish Challenge. This challenge features a tiered prize system, rewarding divers based on the number of lionfish they harvest. Participants who reach Tier 1 by harvesting 25 lionfish in the recreational category (or 50 pounds of lionfish in the commercial category) will receive a commemorative 2024 Lionfish Challenge Coin. Traditionally, Tier 1 participants keep one additional spiny lobster per day during the Lobster Mini-Season as a prize. However, the Governor today announced that, this year, Tier 1 participants will get to keep two additional lobsters per day.

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In September, MDC collaborated with FKF Fisheries, Kansas Parks and Wildlife, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to remove 38,700 pounds of invasive carp from the Grand River on portions of water near Brunswick and Bosworth. The effort was the second removal in the Grand River and an opportunity to test experimental methods of removing these destructive invasive species, to quantify how many fish need to be removed to lower their populations, and to begin making connections to find a use for the fish once they are harvested.

Silver and bighead carp were introduced in the 1970s for their ability to remove algae from aquaculture systems and sewage treatment plants, but they escaped and quickly began to reproduce in the basins of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. They have now been found in 20 states and pose a serious threat to the balance of aquatic ecosystems around the U.S.

According to USFWS, they are native to the Amur River of northeast Asia. While they are threatened in their native range, they have found tremendous reproductive success in our own river systems. They are also an important food fish for much of the world and, according to the 2022 U.N. Report on the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, silver and bighead carp rank in the top six most farmed fish in the world. Sometimes backed by government subsidies in Illinois and other states, these fish are being exported to overseas food markets.

Bighead and silver carp are invasive nonnative species that serve no beneficial purpose to Missouri’s ecosystem. Found in large rivers and lakes across Missouri, bighead and silver carp can outcompete native plankton-eating fish, including paddlefish, bigmouth buffalo, and the young of many other desirable native fishes. Both species are large, heavy-bodied fish, but here are just a few characteristics that distinguish a bighead carp from a silver carp:

A bighead’s eyes sit lower on the head.
A bighead carp’s head is larger than that of a silver carp.
A bighead carp’s body is covered with dark splotches.

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With grant funding from USFWS, MDC has been researching better methods of removal and gathering data on how much harvest is needed to put a dent in their populations. The majority of the roughly 1.5 million dollars earmarked for carp control by USFWS has historically been focused on keeping silver and bighead carp out of the Great Lakes. It is feared that the introduction of these fish into the Great Lakes would cause economic and ecological devastation. For similar reasons, the Mississippi Interstate Cooperative Resource Association, state agencies, and other partners have been making the case for allocating funding for carp removal in other parts of our big rivers as well.

There are numerous barriers to overcome in tackling how to control these invasive species, a need for more data on catch methods being one such challenge.

According to Kasey Whiteman, MDC resource science field station supervisor, most of the invasive carp harvested in Missouri is in the central part of the state on the Mississippi River. Since the Mississippi River has had more funding and subsidies, there’s more participation from commercial fishermen and the larger, slower sections of water is easier to fish than other systems such as the Missouri River.

Both silver and bighead carp are pelagic fish, swimming in schools in the upper part of the water column. They are difficult to stun and, especially in the case of silver carp, will jump out of the water to escape the effects of electrofishing gear or nets. Some wildlife managers have found success using this behavior to corral large schools of fish using motor noise or electrofishing, but in the Grand River removals, several promising new methods were put to the test.

Testing Removal Methods

The first of these new boat setups is a “dozer trawl.” This is a boat that uses a combination of electrodes hung from the front of the boat and a net that is dragged below the front of the boat to collect the stunned fish. This method found success in shallower water if there weren’t a lot of snags.

The second experimental method is a “paupier boat,” which uses two nets hung from the side of the boat as well as electrofishing gear hung from the front of the boat to stun the carp and catch them. This method was most effective in deeper bodies of water.

Gill nets and traditional electrofishing were also tested in this removal, with the gill nets being more effective in deeper water, while the traditional electrofishing excelled in shallow water where heavy snags would make it difficult to use catch methods that rely on large nets.

The first of these removal events closed off a 6-mile stretch of the river using nets. Limiting the movement of fish made it possible to estimate how much of the total population of invasive carp was removed. The total came out to 24,500 pounds of invasive carp removed, which equaled approximately 50–60 percent of the carp population in that closed section of river.

The second event covered 9 river miles and unlike the first removal, the river was not blocked with nets to prevent fish from moving down or upstream. After eight netting sessions, 38,700 pounds of carp were removed from the system. The percentage of these fish as a part of the biomass in the river is still being calculated.

Only 8 percent of the fish caught were native fish. The team was able to set their gear to target the upper water column and largely avoid catching non-target species. Keeping bycatch low will be a critical aspect of creating methods for removing the carp without negatively affecting the desirable native fish in the river.

Using the Fish

Once the fish are caught, there is the question of what to do with them.

“The invasive carp removed by commercial fishermen are utilized in multiple ways, such as food products, fertilizer, fish oil, fish meal, and bait,” Whiteman said.

Illinois has created the “Copi” program, which is a renaming effort that both seeks to connect American consumers with the culinary merits of bighead and silver carp while also providing opportunity for commercial fishers to sell directly to restaurants and processors. The restaurants included on the Copi website span everything from classic midwestern style po’boy sandwiches to the Japanese street food okonomiyaki.

Whiteman noted that the fish caught in the Grand River tended to be in the 3-to-5-pound range, which is a smaller size than what is typically desired for food production. There may be potential in other river systems in Missouri to catch fish that are food market sized, and there have been efforts to demystify how to prepare silver and bighead carp so they can start becoming more accepted as a food source in the U.S.

Besides a food product, silver and bighead carp can be used in the commercial bait market. Much of what was caught in these removal projects will be sold as cut bait for anglers or as bait for lobster and crayfish fishermen. This use holds some exciting promise as an alternative to bait species such as herring and menhaden, which have faced challenges regarding overharvest.

INVERSA Leathers, a company that specializes in creating leather products from invasive species, has developed a product from the skin of captured fish. Several major brands are currently testing products for their application in the fashion industry.

Henri Ferre of INVERSA Leathers stressed the importance of developing supply chains for these fish to help establish a commercially viable system of harvest.

“Some states have limited their incentive programs to just pay reimbursing processors or harvesters, but we believe there is a lot of room to expand and improve upon the commercial harvest within Missouri and other states by building out the local supply chain with other valuable products,” Ferre said. “We’ve done this with lionfish, we’ve done this with python. We’ve started to implement our model in Mississippi and are exploring other lower basin states. We think our model could be replicated across the basin and facilitate large-scale removals of carp.”

Like any fishery, there is no one-size-fits-all solution, and a multiplicity of partners are needed to create a future for commercial carp harvest in the U.S. The current MDC efforts to research invasive carp control will need more dedicated funding and partnerships in the commercial fishing industry to help create reliable methods of harvest, measurable harvest goals, and markets for the fish once they are caught.

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