I wonder if keeping Lionfish is banned yet in this country , especially in the warmer water. That's how they found their way thousands of miles from their natural habitat! Lionfish grow quickly and some hobby fish keepers released them into the local waters thinking they would die! This has been going on for over twenty years. I kept lionfish when I had saltwater aquariums. They died in captivity. They are not agressive to humans unless they are approached. I have never been stung by mine but they are difficult to keep and will never reproduce in captivity. This is why piranha have been banned for years. Dont't blame the fish, blame the ignorant humans who, by the way, have a lot of money (lionfish are very expensive to buy for the home aquarium)
@tropickman6 жыл бұрын
Florida should introduce a $0.25/fish bounty.
@yonniboy16 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%, you'd have thousands of spear fishers out every weekend.
@jesselee25295 жыл бұрын
Not a good idea. There will be deviant people who will spear them to make money and at the same time breed them and release them back to the water so they can continue to make money.
@nap81875 жыл бұрын
Jesse Lee Also people even could start trying to breeding them.
@veronicam29425 жыл бұрын
Jesse Lee true, some people are assholes, unfortunately
@konstellashon13645 жыл бұрын
Selling yourself short. Restaurant wholesale has offered at least $5 per pound of lionfish. (One case where free market for sure actually helps environment)
@rrieps45875 жыл бұрын
Very informative. Unfortunately, spearfishing will not eradicate lionfish because they learn quickly to live during the daytime at depths that divers do not frequent. Trying to teach fish to catch them also fails because what actually happens is that fish learn to follow divers with spears because they know they will get fed. I have seen exactly one uninjured lionfish caught by a grouper. It was one that I scared out of a hole when there was a grouper standing by waiting to be fed. The lionfish mistakenly ran right into the groupers mouth. In some areas, the larger fish will single the diver who has a pole spear out ot a group, and lead him/her to a lionfish and point like a bird dog. Lionfish are very good to eat, and there is a ready market for them. In Cozumel, for example, all a restaurant has to do to gather a crowd is to put up a sign saying lionfish are on the menu and they will draw a crowd. However, the only way to catch them efficiently enough to appease the demand and to approximate extinction by over-fishing is to drag a net. There, the by-catch and damage to natural reefs would be disastrous. Sorry to be so negative, but I have been watching these things for 10 years in the Caribbean as a sport diver. The only thing I can think of that might work would be some sort of targeted male sterilization program. But I don't have any suggestions on how that might be accomplished..
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts
@johnweir3168 Жыл бұрын
I don't know if anyone has researched a couple of other possible approaches to population control of lionfish, but I am thinking that figuring out how to get fish and birds interested in eating the lionfish eggs and larvae would eliminate many lionfish before they have a chance to do damage. The other thought is since we know they communicate through sounds that they make, a sonic lure may be created to attract lionfish in an area to a specific spot where they can be either trapped or harvested. I too have seen nurse sharks point lionfish. Though they can be annoying, it appears to be a partnership in hunting lionfish they enjoy. Divers are trying to change the behavior of native fish to deal with the invader and that has been accomplished. The hunting has changed the behavior of the lionfish as well.
@alejoeisabel6 жыл бұрын
Certainly more profitable to dive for lionfish than abalone. Both do not evade the diver.
@wiggyb8546 жыл бұрын
Wow, didn’t think it was that bad, here in Australia which is supposed to be their natural habitat their not that prolific. Maybe your biologist should come here to the Great Barrier Reef to see what is different. In a way it’s good that they are that easy to spear imagine if they were a flighty fish. Best of luck getting rid of them. I’d love to come over and help you out.
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt5 жыл бұрын
Yes it is very interesting that in their natural habitat they seem to be kept in check regarding their population sizes.
@kaisermuto6 жыл бұрын
In Japan lion fish is high class fish. It has poison on the fin only. When fin is cut, no poison any more. Fried lionfish is nice taste. But it must be fresh. Sashimi, fry, grilled, any cooking OK.
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment
@LukieEl5 жыл бұрын
Instead of using cod or haddock for fish fingers and other batterred fish can they not use lion fish and let Cod and haddock to grow again? Lionfish is a white flesh fish? which i believe it has meaty texture?
@williamlouie5695 жыл бұрын
Spearing them is a drop in the bucket. You can got find some natural processes to control them.
@great-grandmakirk88283 жыл бұрын
I always thought that Lionfish were bigger but I’m surprised at how small they really are, no matter what, they need to be gotten rid of before they eat everything around them.
@IIIRotor6 жыл бұрын
just start a roomer that those spikes are 100 time more potent than rhino Horn.... thank me later...
@funape7425 жыл бұрын
Bwahahahaaa yup sounds like a good an hahaha
@marshas.42225 жыл бұрын
@@funape742 you are so right
@garynorden11174 жыл бұрын
Nothing like a good poak
@user-ou5jm4mo4c2 жыл бұрын
2057:there's only two lionfish left in the world
@antizionist31256 жыл бұрын
why go 20-30 miles? Anything closer to shore?
@koochekoo13093 жыл бұрын
Would it be wrong to just kill the lion fish and leave the carcass for other fish to feed on, just curious?
@Darthbelal5 жыл бұрын
I just wish those lionfish could be harvested on a MASSIVE industrial scale......
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt5 жыл бұрын
groups are working on methods including traps that they hope to be effective
@a.wilson19797 жыл бұрын
I agree. There should be a cruzade with industrial methods of suction the lion fish by divers with large hoses into net cages and after send them to the shore to be recycled as animal food or manure.
@dredrotten6 жыл бұрын
Some Australians in the north eat them because they are one of the best fish you can eat, Stonefish are nice to eat as well. It seems that the ugliest and most dangerous fish taste the best!
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt6 жыл бұрын
we are hoping there tasty helps keep them in control over this way
@loveunderlaw4 жыл бұрын
UNDERWATER VACUUMS ARE THE BEST WAY TO CATCH THESE FISH 🐠 😁👍
@fp59406 жыл бұрын
They are delicious!
@jessstark22584 жыл бұрын
it is gonna take every diver working hard to control these rascals - here is my contribution to the effort in Cayman - kzbin.info/www/bejne/j32klpiPrMuWopY - feeding snapper and kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJCllaeFe86So8k - Feeding Moray
@JayJay-er1sq6 жыл бұрын
Leave em dead on sea floor. Some fish will learn to eat it.
@crappymccrappen48972 жыл бұрын
Excessive cruelty against a poor fish that was just looking for better life. It brought so much diversity and cultural enrichment to the privileged reef dwellers. Lionfish lives matter !
@user-ou5jm4mo4c2 жыл бұрын
Bruuuuu😒 your not understanding the situation
@crappymccrappen48972 жыл бұрын
@@user-ou5jm4mo4c If only the North American natives understood the situation 500 years ago we won't be having the problems we have today. I'd say the brittish settlers we at least as harmful to the environment as the lionfish. After all they did kill 60 million buffalo and eat 5 billion passenger pigeons.
@crappymccrappen48972 жыл бұрын
@@user-ou5jm4mo4c Also what really amazes me is that you dont understand sarcasm. LIONFISH LIVES MATTER!
@MrBilioner5 жыл бұрын
here on 24k likes before this gets bombarded from youtube algorithm
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt5 жыл бұрын
We are hopeful to spread the message as much as possible
@marqueswilsonn3 жыл бұрын
Wasting time. You need a compressor on the boat, and a meat grinder over the side.
@gkess71066 жыл бұрын
Drag a net?
@funape7425 жыл бұрын
How do they avoid catching other species alongside the lionfish?
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt5 жыл бұрын
Most of the lionfish tend to be around underwater structure (i.e. reef structures and so for). Having said that regional shrimper who drag nets for shrimp harvesting report catching Lionfish in their nets occasionally.
@1903ibo3 жыл бұрын
just get Walmart and Costco buy lionfish they all be disappear
@nerxboy6 жыл бұрын
its really weird how you call yourself an invasive species specialist, but grossed out by dissecting the fish lol
@KMacFNP2 жыл бұрын
Yup! And the way he was holding the fish, then described its stomach content as "gnarly" made me doubt if he's really a specialist. 😆😆
@rafanyvaladao93126 жыл бұрын
Parabéns
@aha58886 жыл бұрын
Are aliens invading
@MrLookitspam2 жыл бұрын
I hope all remember they are dangerous to people
@KingTriton18376 жыл бұрын
It ain't that hard to argue their "beauty" or lack thereof-- those fish are extremely hideous.
@ThinkItSinkItReefIt5 жыл бұрын
A popular aquarium fish, the likely reason they have invaded these non-native waters
@johnsweeney60726 жыл бұрын
It would be extremely hard to sex them as they all smell like fish 😎
@boatmanbermuda72556 жыл бұрын
i bet you had worse
@johnsweeney60726 жыл бұрын
boatman Bermuda haha all beautiful at the time. 😂🇦🇺