Sentences with phrase «pacific lionfish»

Pacific lionfish were first reported off the coast of Florida in the 1980s, and have been gaining swiftly in number ever since.

Not exact matches

Only 18 % of observed lionfish in the Atlantic blew these jets, while about half of the observed lionfish employed this strategy in the Pacific.

Since their introduction to the Atlantic Ocean in the 1980s, Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have gobbled up native Caribbean and western Atlantic reef fishes, reducing their abundance by up to 90 %.

The great invasion: The Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) The red lionfish, Pterois volitans, is native to the Indo - PacificLionfish (Pterois volitans) The red lionfish, Pterois volitans, is native to the Indo - Pacificlionfish, Pterois volitans, is native to the Indo - Pacific region.

The Great Barrier Reef, Australia - dolphins, humpback whales, minke whales, Indo - Pacific humpback dolphins, dugongs, 125 recorded species of shark, stingray or chimera, potato cod (goliath grouper), clownfish, red - throat emperor, red bass, several species of snapper and coral trout, lionfish, stonefish and saltwater crocodiles.

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In the case of lionfish, they were accidentally introduced from the Pacific sometime in the 1980's in southern Florida.

It makes me think of the crown - of - thorns starfish problem on Pacific coral reefs, which I studied during the same years that the lionfish were first getting to know the Caribbean.

Such is the desperate status of the lionfish wars, an invasion of this predatory fish from the Pacific Ocean into the Bahamas and Caribbean region that threatens everything from coral reef ecosystems to the local economies, which are based on fishing and tourism.