Sentences with phrase «lionfish populations in»

The runaway success of lionfish populations in waters around Florida could provide a glimpse into the future of Mediterranean habitats.

Johnston said that the west Florida Shelf is a high - production fishery, especially for red grouper, and that projection model shows the grouper in areas that are expected to have high lionfish populations in the future.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Marine reserves, which often allow «no take» of any marine life in an effort to recover fish populations, may need to be the focus of lionfish removal.

An OSU study in 2008 showed that lionfish in the Atlantic have been known to reduce native fish populations by up to 80 percent.

The team first observed this behavior while monitoring lionfish populations off Lee Stocking Island in the Bahamas.

The researchers did find that lionfish populations were lower in protected reefs, attributing that to targeted removal by reef managers, rather than consumption by large fishes in the protected areas.

The King Cruiser wreck, which sank in May 1997, about halfway from Phuket to Phi Phi is a more advanced dive due to its resting point at 30 meters, it has created a fantastic artificial reef with many fish circling the area including a growing population of lionfish and scorpionfish, barracuda, schools of snappers.

Dr. Mark A. Hixon, Professor of Zoology, and a team of graduate and undergraduate students from Oregon State University have demonstrated that a single lionfish can reduce the population of juvenile fish on small coral reefs by 80 percent in just five weeks.

Surveys have found that introducing just a single lionfish to a reef leads to a 79 percent reduction in juvenille fish populations within five weeks.