Lionfish Hunting and Sharks Pensacola, FL

Another day of lionfish hunting offshore Pensacola Florida. This was April 2016 approximately 15mi Southwest of Pensacola Pass in 100ft of water. Had a few interested sharks come in to check things out.
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[@op3l]

Holy crap. That's seriously an infestation. Good job sir.

[@Sidewalkchalk27]

Kill them all.

[@epikhamzter4311]

he shud take a net and net them all then drown them on land

[@DB-gl3jx]

@@epikhamzter4311 “drown them on land” is a phrase i’d never thought i’d hear.

[@andreacalisi4699]

I've stumbled into the hole of watching these lion fish cleanup videos and I can't stop watching! So satisfying! Great job!

[@MichelleVisageOnlyFans]

Ikr!? It's better than Dr Pimplepopper!

[@murrayer5426]

Glad to see someone is trying to take care of these predators.

[@vampervlad2399]

I can’t tell you how many lion fish hunting videos I’ve watched. Why is this so mesmerizing?

[@themudbugjuggler9912]

Just found your channel and subscribed. Your videos are great. If I lived in Florida, I would do this every weekend. Well done you for being so proactive, and effective, in the removal of this invasive. It would be great if the "proceeds" (the fish) could be given or donated to people in need. Awesome videos, look forward to the next!

[@cdnerin]

Good god the reef is just carpeted in lionfish! So sad :( But it's a great video -- thank you for getting some of them. It seems you go out to spear them quite often and that is awesome of you. I hope you've found a restaurant to buy them or you're able to eat them yourself & share with friends & family.

[@dreammaker9642]

You should feed some Lion fish to the sharks, encourage them to prey on Lion fish. Helps fix the problem of local predators get a taste for them.

[@spermchef2731]

I doubt sharks would willingly eat these lionfish

[@btube2006]

There's a video of some diver who is trying to teach sharks to eat them. There's another one where they're trying the same thing but with big groupers.

[@MarkPrimo]

I see you figured out the elastic was slowing down your harvest speed. Haha.

[@alexfogg4803]

My arm was tired from previous dives. The 'trash stick' method works out well!

[@LeeMilby]

After doing some research, it's good to know that people have produced a more efficient method to hunt and remove this fish. Hopefully with enough interest from hunters, the population could have some hope of being controlled!

[@19822andy]

Nothing but total eradication of Lionfish from the Atlantic will suffice.

[@gailhowes9398]

Wow there are so many of them! Just sitting there waiting for their turn to get poked!

[@xylopiano3]

It's oddly satisfying watching these things get speared. Thank you for helping save the ocean!

[@spookyskeleton6086]

so many lion fish just lion around! *slaps knee*

[@atomicmudkipz3119]

Um... Bad pun

[@kaidenjohnson3735]

*shits pants from laughter*

[@Mr.Saephan503]

It like seeing someone pick up trash on the side of the highway lol

[@glenn9062]

Great job guys!!!

[@mrhaltstop2294]

They stick together...easier to catch at high speed

[@regularsizeruss3874]

One of those huge vacuum hoses they use for salvage and treasure hunting could work there! So many! Ugh!

[@gaius_enceladus]

Just makes me want to go down there with a giant underwater vacuum-cleaner and suck them all up! **Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuurp.....**

[@johnmichaelsaraceno7339]

Congratulations on cleaning the house...I'm trying to interest my dive shop to set up a trip to hunt Lionfish!

[@whydoineedahandle269]

You are a badass sir. Nice skills with the hawaiian

[@DanBowkley]

Aside from buying my own boat (which isn't exactly in the budget right now) what's the best way to get down on an area like that? Are there dedicated lionfish trips?

[@jayrodriguez2121]

Is there not an easier way, like a vacuum or a net? That is an amazing amount of lion fish.

[@temuulmunkhtur]

do this more! apparently, lionfish population is still on the rise in 2021 and doing more damage than ever

[@E.TTrailblazer]

Damn

[@tropickman]

Gorgeous technique!

[@at1970]

With those numbers it’s amazing that anything else is left.

[@JIANYM36]

Teaching sharks to hunt lionfish is a great idea.

[@navvet4518]

Seems like a treasure hunters vacuum would make quick work.

[@mikeneumann4660]

You should feed them to the sharks let them know that it’s a food source

[@ryanlonghurst]

You have a big zookeeper XL and another catch bag. Where would I find the one with the fabric and rivets? Did Ali make one custom for you? I'm looking for something that creates less drag when traveling but still holds 40+

[@alexfogg4803]

If you send him an email, he will be happy to help you out. He has the unit I'm using for sale at his website: www.zkstore.com/product/zookeeper-pro-45-custom/ Expensive but you can pay for it pretty quick by hunting and selling your catch.

[@ryanlonghurst]

Thanks. That is pretty damn pricey.

[@reidbosco1062]

Where is this?

[@7thSmurf]

u should add technical data.. liek depth , water temp, time of day and then some Terminator target aquisiion ^^

[@kennethjohnson4222]

Doesn't hurt that they are delicious to boot! A great tasting fish that has no limit... If they weren't an invasive species (and very destructive), they'd be a fisherman's dream.

[@19822andy]

That small batch of fish there has devoured thousands upon thousands of small fry. Wipe them out!

[@keithoberg5365]

scary how many were down there

[@KimbArrleyy]

Soooo many of them!!! Can you please no edit the vids of lionfish hunting...would love to see you pick them all off one by one with no cuts

[@judybirdwell8819]

Love it!!

[@pumapants6833]

Too satisfying to watch

[@hyperion1028]

THEY ARE EVERYWHEREEE

[@tasmiamin2752]

Ik this was 4 years ago but holy hell that's a lot of fishes i-

[@RAEN74]

I just don't get why they don't run away

[@mitchkayla9195]

Y not have 2 or 3 people swim right over them and drop a cast net of sorts on the hole gang of them. Idk if that would work or not

[@scottcalloway4630]

Why don't you just net them en mass? What i mean is take a few divers out with a casting net and heard them out into the open water a but and drop the net over them?

[@martinchristian597]

this method is good but guys you need to come up with small net type or sth like that where you can scoop in all of them or atleast most of them but in the process find a way to get rid of other fish.

[@nightshade4166]

Makes me sad I was born and raised here. 15 years ago there would of been giant SheepHead everywhere

[@MatthewSmith-to1hz]

how did all these lion fish get here?

[@afogg2006]

Invasive species. Not really any natural predators so they are unchecked.

[@katierose7539]

So glad people are dedicated to controlling them as much as possible. Personally, I’d rather hear the “thunk” of spearing them than music.

[@hotrodhog2170]

Do you have to have a license to sell them?

[@kronykus]

You need a Saltwater Products License (SPL).

[@navvet4518]

I’m pretty sure 2 divers with a big dip nets could clean up in no time.

[@v.e.7236]

Holy crap!!! Had no idea how much a plague these little bastards had become. Do the sharks eat the lionfish or are they poisonous to everything? Great job helping to thin the ranks. My God they are prolific!

[@christianalfaro9426]

where yous scared when you saw that shark role up on the fish

[@afogg2006]

Not really. Just kept an eye on him.

[@airgabs]

I want to help out with this some day! Cheers from Panama!

[@dieseldog00]

1. Learn to scuba 2. Hire out on a lionfish boat

[@brianwyatt143]

How deep were the lionfish?

[@afogg2006]

115ft

[@brianwyatt143]

+Alex Fogg do any spots that your boat dives have lionfish at 60ft or less?

[@afogg2006]

Yes. Not as many but they are there.

[@datboiderrty]

they actually don't taste that bad

[@Herogames2022]

Insane this must be about 300 of them easy how crazy they spread in short period of time youtube algorythm got me 2 days ago with those fockers ^^

[@maxellyou]

you guys are awesome! look at em all!!!! just be careful of sharks please

[@peaceandlove.2932]

Thats a lot in one place ..looks fun catching them though..

[@heribertosanchez6474]

great, till last one

[@davidmichael3137]

so crazy how none of them are even trying to swim away. Cant they sense that there's blood in the water.

[@ryanjohnson5266]

they aren't used to having predators hunting them, won't even bother leaving

[@lilliehalumi8770]

I love these videos that get right to it, they are really satisfying. The videos with way too much talking, girls in bikinis, and underwater sightseeing is not what I want to see during a lionfish removal. Thank you for your hard work.

[@klausstellmacher6971]

Its like picking up trash 😁

[@jurajbeger9299]

you collect them like cabbages rofl

[@johndour5207]

I like seeing a stone killer in action

[@krisraps]

we need to make a ship with a HUGE TUBE, a Sucking tube wich drops everything on a mesh on the ship, and we people can jsut go down and suck up these lionfishes all day long ./ THAT WILL Considerably change the fish population

[@willwagner2252]

I would think a mouth full of lion fish and the shark would spit it out.

[@frisk151]

This is porn for an ole' lionfish hunter.. I was massacring these shits on Cozumel back in 2010-2011 but jeeezus! Never saw a turkey shoot like this.. Awesome! (That you are killing them) I've never seen gaggles of them like this.. Would love to hook up with you for one of these cleanups...

[@afogg2006]

Come on up!

[@matthewspry4217]

Bet your stick was blunt after all that 😜

[@lorenz2781]

1:50 thats a fking double kill haha

[@sysublime5091]

Lion fish are good tasting dumb fish. Lion fish tacos yummy.

[@scubamarilu]

So many, not enough zookeepers

[@officialspock]

These fish has no natural predators, they are not scared even though their comrades are being killed one by one

[@randolph84brown]

What if you just speared them and then left them to die? The sharks came because they smelled blood of the Lionfish. Just spear like 30 of them and let the sharks come. No use in carrying all that extra weight...

[@tylerbyrd6011]

Because they're not good bleeders. look when they get speared not a single drop of blood. If anything cleaning crews like crabs starfish and snails would get to them first before a shark even considers eating the fish

[@jessstark2258]

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

[@justinnorton4433]

HAHA, you don't want to share the concordances do you?!?!?!

[@redbullrich]

Badass

[@LouSaudi]

Get them all...

[@sysublime5091]

Sharks won't even eat them.

[@dreammaker9642]

They actually do since divers fed them to em... just have to give them a taste for it and they’ll do the rest. Once the sharks realize it’s a potential food source they will prey on them especially seeing how many they are. I know you gonna tell me that Lion fish have venomous spines and I will inform you the sharks don’t care. I’m not 100% sure but I think some reef sharks are immune and either way if venom is infested it does nothing besides being dissolved in gastric acid and as for the spines welp good luck penetrating a shark’s skin with that. And yes you might say that they can get stung from inside the mouth but most reef fishes have spines and sharks don’t seem to be bothered much by them.

[@samsunggrand2969]

Good

[@mattjohnson1775]

Thats awesome they just sit there and let you get them instead of scattering. Seems like a very stupid fish. Nuts.

[@deskereweez3784]

Money AND FUN

[@newtonburch1624]

Lionfish faces remind me of the faces of the intruders at the Capital.

[@patchesgezen]

Please feed the sharks the lion fish 🎣 the will developed a taste👌

[@ianchesterponce3113]

Chain Headshot

[@irobott3713]

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

[@MichelleVisageOnlyFans]

Why don't the sharks eat them? They are such an easy prey! Those dumbasses just sit there in hoards waiting to be eaten or speared.

[@tylerbyrd6011]

sharks can be surprisingly picky and usually don't know if they're food or not

[@dylankersten3383]

Because they are venomous.

[@Avalanche2]

Crazy thing is if they caught all of them alive and sold them to the pet trade that many are worth tens of thousands of dollars.

[@magnusqwerty]

This is not effective.

[@kristinakay9558]

Sooo how do divers stay so calm around sharks? My first instinct is to scream then cry then swim away. Are most sharks in FL not aggressive towards humans? Because in CA THEH WANT TO RIP OUR HEADS OFF. I mean not that we don’t deserve it,, stupid ca but why aren’t y’all freaking out

[@gustavohidalgo4157]

Hunting? You meant picking lion fish...

[@joeboden8898]

Great video except for that Crappy Singing" Had too turn off Volume.

[@jimbob4456]

Not the brightest species