Isaac Jones and Paul DeCuir have never met, but they share something in common — a disdain for lionfish. The invasive species native to Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific region first showed up on ...
ON ANY GIVEN weekend this summer, there was a lionfish derby underway somewhere in Florida. As the population of this invasive species has exploded in recent years, so too has interest in targeting ...
The FWC Lionfish Challenge in Florida saw record-breaking participation and harvest numbers this year. Some 285 divers removed 31,773 invasive lionfish from fragile coral reef ecosystems in the Gulf ...
By 2011, they had moved into the northern Gulf of Mexico, she said. Two years ago, they were rarely spotted on the reefs that make the oil platforms off Louisiana's coast fertile hunting grounds for ...