Search results for: “lionfish”
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Lionfish continue their upriver march
Below is a repost of a piece by Zack from Abaco Scientist about the the lionfish invasion of the Loxahatchee River in southeastern Florida. I grew up on the Loxahatchee, fishing and boating in it, and I knew every nook and cranny in the map below. The snook fishing was amazing and it wasn’t uncommon to see manatees.…
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Lionfish: the true pirates of the Caribbean
This is a guest post by Serena Hackerott, an undergraduate in my lab. In the photo below, Serena is teaching me how to extract the tiny otoliths from a lionfish she captured. Lionfish are the first marine fish to successfully invade the Caribbean. Lionfish are “piscivores”, or predatory fish that eat other fish, native to the…
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Top ten lionfish facts
From Death to lionfish 10 What’s with the name, lionfish? Nobody knows for sure how they got their name, but when they spread out their pectoral fins it sort of looks like a lion’s mane. And they are ferocious predators. The scientific name for the species is Pterois volitans (pronounced, Tare-oh-ease vol-eh-tawns). Pterois = wing or fin, from…
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Why are lionfish populations exploding across the Caribbean?
Lionfish are an exotic fish now found throughout the Greater Caribbean and eastern Atlantic that have become incredibly abundant on many reefs, especially in the Bahamas and off North Carolina. Lionfish are a piscivore (a fish that eats other fish) and were introduced from the Indo-Pacific by the aquarium trade in the late 1990s off Florida. Mostly likely,…
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I am the lionfish
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dRLDmprw-k[/youtube]
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Lionfish on the menu
Here are three stories that really deserve to be shared together, all about the catching and eating of our friend, the lionfish. First, is this article about a lionfish derby Dr Craig Layman, AKA The Abaco Scientist, organized with Friends of the Environment on Abaco, Bahamas on May 27, 2011. In one day, 15 boats…
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Filleting a lionfish
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx3tf71TdfE[/youtube]
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Let us eat…lionfish
Ray Hilborn famously urged Americans to eat more fish in his recent NYT op-ed Let us eat fish. I explained why this is a bad idea here, but one fish it would be good to start eating more of is invasive lionfish. Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote a great piece on the fledgling lionfish fishery Answer for Invasive…
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Lionfish – You’ve gotta eat them to beat them
Time for a quick break from the serious stuff. Here’s a silly musical interlude with a catchy tune and an important message (I must admit I had to look up what panko is – never heard of it!). [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUh46605zPs&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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Lionfish Invasion, part 3
[wpvideo xHLnpP4y] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.