Sentences with phrase «controlling lionfish»

It may take a legion of scuba divers armed with nets and spears, but a new study confirms for the first time that controlling lionfish populations in the western Atlantic Ocean can pave the way for a recovery of native fish.

«They're willing to do this because of the mission — because of what we all want to do here,» he says of the trucking company, adding that all seafood stands to benefit if controlling the lionfish scourge succeeds.

If so, current efforts to control lionfish by fishing derbies and targeted fisheries may remain the best way to control the invasion.

Not exact matches

The technology is now being tested to control crown - of - thorns starfish, which have devastated Great Barrier Reef corals in recent years, and invasive lionfish, which are competing with native species in the Caribbean Sea.

New studies are giving ecologists some hope of controlling red lionfish, a voracious predator that has invaded the Atlantic.

And unlike other successful invaders, like tiger shrimp, lionfish have no natural predators to keep populations under control.

«Ocean predator» conjures up images of sharks and barracudas, but the voracious red lionfish is out - eating them all in the Caribbean — and Mother Nature appears unable to control its impact on local reef fish.

Here's one of White's videos, showing his lionfish control efforts, from reef to fork:

Until we can develop a better understanding of this invasion, one of the few control mechanisms may be to develop a market for them as a food fish... lionfish are pretty easy to catch, taste good and could be advertised as a conservation dish.