Sentences with phrase «lionfish invasion»

In spite of their best efforts, conservationists have been unable to find anything that can fence in the lionfish invasion.

The first wave of a lionfish invasion has struck in the Mediterranean Sea, a region where these fish had not been established before

OSU has been one of the early leaders in the study of the lionfish invasion.

He heads out with a family to hunt and cook iguanas, competes in a fishing derby to tackle the lionfish invasion, and learns the art of Cuban cooking and cigar making from a master.

Lionfish University is made up of a group of divers dedicated to the preservation of the ocean's reefs and native fish populations, which are threatened by the Lionfish invasion in the Caribbean.

This could help quantify lionfish invasions, says Aran Mooney at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Not exact matches

In 2010 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched its «Eat Lionfish» campaign to combat the species's invasion of the Caribbean.

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

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Just in case you missed it, my friend and occasional fishing tutor Carl Safina has a string of posts on Mark Bittman's blog on the continuing invasion of American waters by lionfish, a reef denizen, studded with toxin - tipped spines, that was most likely brought here from Asian waters by the aquarium trade.

The latest piece describes a fishing derby and lionfish feast, but stresses that it'll be impossible to deter this particular invasion with only a culinary counterattack, given that there are likely millions of these fish already inhabiting American reefs.

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.

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.