Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Pensacola Derby 2018

Team Florida Man takes home 1st place honors after two hard days of diving. 2,403 were removed by our team and this marks the most lionfish removed by a single team in any single derby. Thank you to all organizers, sponsors and participants for making this a great event!

[@klebzellock67]

Thanks for all of your efforts. The only good thing about Lionfish is that they don't spook and swim away.

[@michaelcornbread4943]

Idk why, but I find these videos relaxing

[@kimone5321]

I do to .. it’s weird lol

[@crappymccrappen4897]

What is so relaxing about this? Its like watching teenagers getting killed by police. Lionfish lives matter.

[@gaangler7486]

Haha that team "Making the gulf great again" 😂

[@GlenHoffmanX]

Great job Alex and congratulations on the win!

[@zookeeper_lcu6087]

For a 3 day event.......The record still stands for a single team of 4 divers on a single day tournament at 1399 taken in less than 7 hours.

[@afogg2006]

ZooKeeper_LCU comparing apples and oranges.

[@zookeeper_lcu6087]

Just like comparing volitan and miles......don't get me started!!! I'm not as smart as you!

[@k0olmini11]

seriously keep up the good work

[@MrEueu89]

Awesome video sir. Thank you for your effort!

[@lilliehalumi8770]

Very satisfying to watch, and great job helping to save the reefs. We need more people like you to find these fish and get them like you did here. Thank you for this video.

[@bigguygabe]

Thank you Alex!

[@jiffyb333]

Awesome work!

[@handsomejohnjohn]

We need more people to remove lionfish. Look , there are so many.

[@sanmcnellis94]

Absolutely wonderful.

[@JayTee2985]

How many combo hits did you land on the little one? 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂. Love it.

[@elyriggs4999]

he went ballistic on the small one lmfao

[@jps6594]

Hey, how are u doing? I'm from Mexico, I live in Queretaro and I love your videos, you should upload more and keep doing what u do, love ur videos ♡

[@lriques1]

Nice job! Congratulations!! Parabéns! Muito bom! Vai ter bons filés! Nham! Nham!

[@canadiandcute]

The beach hotels in the places affected by these fish should offer discounts on rooms for people that remove lionfish. Something like 2 bucks a fish up to 10 of them per room per night and it could also be a tax write off for the hotels if the government got on board.

[@mattrost2574]

Your team didn't bother with spring-loaded harpoons. Great time saver.

[@lennylush09]

Seen these on a reef on holiday in Cuba, hope you are sharing support to the Cubans on removal

[@TJBellamy99]

I love these videos, but I’ve always wondered how do the fish just stay inside the tube thing. Is there some kind of one way gate or something?

[@MrPhatdizzle]

Dude I love your videos man, if you ever have any extra lion fish I wanna eat some xD

[@CrabberPA]

Wow. Nice job.

[@vikiweinberg2763]

How many lionfish did you catch that day? A superb effort!!!

[@captaingeneraltrajann509]

I know this is 9 months late, but how deep was this?

[@chadmerkley9465]

Where do I find info on 2022 derby's? I saw some all the way down in the keys...

[@Herogames2022]

They dont even react they still stay still when they get attacked amazing

[@Jayden-xn9xo]

How come in all lion fish videos there are rusty old cages next to them

[@chelseafcrocks82]

They like to congregate around wrecks where smaller fish go to filter feed.

[@raffysungarngar3553]

Legends

[@bryanmcelwee2733]

How deep is this site?

[@sarahschoaf3540]

What was the thing that was very tiny he killed? A baby lionfish?

[@riaandw3155]

Hahaha..NAILED it 👍🏻

[@ambert.3792]

this boat skeleton seems to be a popular spot for them. your diving skill is super good too. anyways, thank you so much. i wont kill em or eat them, but i dont want them hurting the natural fish. excellent work! 🤗

[@rosemarygoddard6780]

What do you do with the fish after you catch them?

[@seaweed1992]

Remove the poisonous spikes and eat them

[@lilliehalumi8770]

You're kidding, right? He's not catching them for pleasure. They are an invasive species, please read about them and how they destroy reefs.

[@Sillyzombie666]

you beat the ever loving shit out of that tiny one you just kept smashing it over and over

[@windycityassassin392]

lion fish are the chillest fish in the water, other lionfish stabbed beside them and they just be like "when will u stab me?"

[@RAEN74]

I want to do this....or learn base

[@aminnekoubin]

l am wandering why the other fishes don't escape?

[@darylciccariello7778]

Love lion fishing Where are you in Destin Looking to travel there to hunt

[@myclubwagon]

GO GO GO

[@desmondciauri4616]

Battered L fish is good! If people ate this every day as Fish n chips it would help

[@Whitpusmc]

Boy they don’t make it difficult do they?

[@dungeonrat]

The Pacific Lionfish has to be the stupidest fish in the entire ocean!

[@womblestacker7993]

Do you get paid to do this as you kill lots but they just come back stronger

[@Jaradis]

I wonder if you had a device that would just suck them in, chop them up, and spit out the pieces for other fish to eat if it would be faster. There are so many just sitting together.

[@douglasholanda2550]

Tá porra daqui a pouco não tem mais nenhum ,muito fácil de pegar

[@JustDoinFlorida]

Ahhh... I love how stupid lionfish are. It just makes me feel warm on the inside to know that they’re tasty and easy to kill

[@justintime7019]

Love it!

[@PescasubacuaticaColombia]

It is important to know that predators like moray eels and other sharks can also learn to eat these fish and leave them some wounded so that they learn to eat them too, the small ones should be eliminated. important to leave some injured so that other fish get used to eating them

[@spikebaduccino6613]

What type of bait, if any, is placed I those cages?

[@pumapants6833]

Those are reefs. No bait. They just find lionfish and stab them

[@lilliehalumi8770]

What cages? Are you for real?

[@Justthemow]

That’s a lot of fish but it’s not really making a dent lionfish are prolific breeders and with no natural predators you would have to do about 100x that number to quell the lionfish population

[@prajaktajoshi6280]

Out of all, smallest is the best catch

[@akula1085]

1:40 pocket lion fish

[@miles3193]

They need a vacuume system

[@BestPathUSA]

This is more lion fish "harvesting" than "hunting".

[@wooddawg4868]

This is how you get rid of them " eat'em to beat'em". We now in the world have cooks trained in cooking them so it's on now.

[@vivzarzadon3492]

That was to much 😔😔

[@kevinhoward7194]

Can you eat them

[@seaweed1992]

Yes, remove the poisonous spikes first. Apparently they are delisioso

[@sengalkol]

these got to be the dumbest or the cockiest fish ever...lol..

[@rangerstl07]

Lion fish seem pretty stupid and oblivious... Good thing.

[@joechino9022]

I heard these fishes are tasty...

[@psychonana]

I'm curious... why bag them all... In the interest of eradication, wouldn't it be easier to just kill them and let the reef clean them up? I imagine you'd get rid of more of them that way or is there enough demand to eat/sell them?)

[@joechino9022]

They are tasty...

[@dayx2103]

E-Z money 💵💵

[@crappymccrappen4897]

The poor misunderstood lionfish. It was just seeking better life far from its war thorn home. It brought so much cultural enrichment to the privileged reef dwellers. Why would you murder them like this? Lionfish lives matter!

[@joseluissarur4815]

Good bye sea life. I´ll see you in a couple years if there´s anything left. Keep the videos, so in the future you´ll remember how it was before

[@ChristianSpencer]

Jose Luis Sarur Before lionfish ruined all the reefs? You’re ignorant

[@seaweed1992]

Man, they are an introduced pest doing horrific damage in the Caribbean. Please, do some research!