Sentences with phrase «where lionfish»

«It shows that by creating safe havens, small pockets of reef where lionfish numbers are kept low, we can help native species recover.

On reefs where lionfish were kept below threshold densities, native prey fish increased by 50 - 70 percent.

Not exact matches

When other seafood restaurants began asking where he was sourcing his lionfish, he knew he was.

Invulnerable to virtually all predators due to poisonous spines that cover its body, the lionfish has spread from the North Atlantic — where it was accidentally introduced by the aquarium trade in the 1980s — to the Caribbean and across the Gulf of Mexico.

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

The reef here is stunning, even in the shallows where you will see a variety of different hard and soft corals and it is common to see frogfish, shoals of midnight snappers, barracuda, tuna, lionfish, clownfish and puffer fish.

This wall site is accessed from the boat and you ascend down directly onto the reef wall that houses small caves, overhangs where you will see Angelfish, Butterfly fish, Lionfish, Hawkish, Nudibranch and if your lucky at the time a whale shark!

Coral Garden, Drop - off and Seraya are mostly macro dive sites, where one can see two - spotted lionfish, moray eels, ribbon eels, rock groupers at cleaning stations, nudibranches, pygmy seahorse and sometimes even harlequin shrimps.