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03-30-2013, 05:23 PM
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When I was diving cayman brac, a couple of years ago, the dive masters carry a spear for the lion fish, they spear one and feed it to a moray eel.
When I dove cayman brac 10 years ago, there was a lot more marine life, the lion fish really changed the marine population there. While doing a night dive in the Red Sea, actually watch a lion fish gulp a smaller fish. 
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03-30-2013, 05:36 PM
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Hmmm.... Interesting!
I don't see why don't. We eat urchins, puffers... why not lionfish!? Let's save the ocean! 
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03-30-2013, 06:29 PM
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at least they come with their own tooth picks...ok maybe bad idea
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03-30-2013, 07:35 PM
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I'd love to try and cook up some lion fish!
Lion fish are actually not native to the Atlantic. They were brought into that region either by accident or intentionally. Without a natural predator they are reaching plague proportions and wrecking the ecosystem there. You could say they are the rats of the sea in this area where they are not native. Harvesting and collecting them to extinction in the Atlantic is what scientists are hoping for :-)
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03-30-2013, 07:43 PM
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As a Chef, I'd love to see stuff like Lion fish get more popular. They are an invasive species and are going to ruin a lot of the reefs. Maybe we could cut back on things like Tuna, Lobster and Cod to name a few. And I'm sure there is something edible in crown of thorns as well. All it takes is people helping to create a demand and the markets could flourish and save some reefs at the same time. Personally I have noticed the popularity of some of the less sought after species of fish grow in the last 5 years due to the shortage of and price of the more popular ones. If we don't change the way we think we are going to ruin our oceans
 That being said look for sustainable seafood symbols on all your fish purchases and buy captive breed fish and corals whenever possible.
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03-30-2013, 11:45 PM
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Lionfish are great to eat. I've had them on a few occasions and like most white meat fish, it doesn't have that strong "fishy" taste to it.
The lions are a huge problem in the Caribbean. I've only been to Grand Cayman and to Belize, where there were much larger numbers of lionfish present. Every dive in Belize we took spears with us. Most times we would get a couple, but they would be smaller. The larger ones would be deeper where I wasn't going. On many occasions nurse sharks would follow us and eat the lions right off the spears. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyktW-vO3kQ This is a problem that will never be fixed. It is too widespread and it will be a matter of time to see what affects there are on the ecosystem.
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03-31-2013, 12:07 AM
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