| Grand sea fans enliven a reef inhabited by leaf fish, lionfish, and a polychromatic array of nudibranchs. |
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| A night dive on the house reef revealed spiny lobsters and red crabs, morays, scorpionfish and lionfish. |
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| Butterflyfish, angelfish and pufferfish cruised around and a zebra lionfish rested on a small patch of sand. |
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| Covered in black coral trees and full of marine life like skipjack and lionfish, the ship is another easy wreck. |
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| Fishy attractions include huge scorpionfish, lionfish, lots of lizardfish, triggerfish and surgeons and many different wrasse varieties. |
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| Soft corals sway with the current, while schools of striped and spotted groupers, angelfish, batfish and lionfish dart between them. |
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| I was bored with photographing co-operative green turtles, so I turned to barracuda, batfish, groupers and a lone zebra lionfish. |
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| The lionfish is expected to cause serious damage to reefs and other animal populations such as the lobster and snapper. |
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| Without any control from divers or fishermen, the lionfish population has been allowed to grow unchecked. |
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| Sadly, there are too many lionfish about, and the bounties have proved too expensive to sustain. |
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| The potential for a large, unhindered invasion of the lionfish is likely as it has few predators in its new environment. |
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| The lionfish congregates too deeply in rivers for net catching to be effective. |
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| Removal of the lionfish poses a significant challenge as there are no feasible predators in the infested area. |
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| Summary: Scientists worry about the spread of lionfish populations in the waters of Southern Florida. |
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| Some specialists state that the lionfish could be the most devastating marine invasion to date. |
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| The red lionfish is native to Indian and Pacific nations but has started to appear in various areas stretching from Cuba to North Carolina. |
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| Three derbies have been planned in an attempt to reduce the population of the invasive species known as Indo-Pacific red lionfish. |
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| Summary: The aggressive lionfish species is disrupting ecosystems from the Caribbean to the United States. |
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| The outside of the wreck is covered in coral and small fish and look out for lionfish and crocodilefish. |
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| We saw crabs, eels, batfish, unicornfish, pufferfish, boxfish, lionfish, squirrelfish, racoonfish, butterflyfish, parrotfish and angelfish, to name just a few. |
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| Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish. |
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| Soft corals, upside-down fish, barracuda, sweetlips, blue-spotted rays, grouper, lionfish, shrimps and sand-eels have each staked out their own sectarian neighbourhoods. |
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| Munoz found that these lionfish had been eating the occasional sea urchin, brittle star, crab, shrimp, and mollusk. |
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| The derbies focus on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and encourage people to compete in teams to capture these lionfish for cash and prizes. |
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| Experts believe the lionfish was introduced to the Atlantic when hurricane Andrew destroyed an aquarium in Florida, and a few drifted into Miami's Biscayne Bay. |
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| The first of the three planned derbies aimed to collect 534 of these lionfish and attracted 27 teams who won cash or prizes for collecting the most, largest and smallest lionfish. |
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| Beaked parrot fish, pretty butterfly fish, torpedo-shaped cornetfish, grumpy stonefish, striped bannerfish, little coralfish, spiny lionfish. |
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| Experts are currently involved in the study, extermination, as well as banning the sale of lionfish in the region, as preventative and management procedures. |
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| There has been a ton of buzz lately about the exotic and very dangerous lionfish. |
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| A quilled lionfish was face to face with a saurian moray eel, sizing it up before swimming on. |
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| In the Caribbean, though, the lionfish is a novelty and a destructive one. |
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| Anything that damages the biodiversity of the reefs in diving resorts is bad for tourism, so in some countries, such as Mexico and Belize, people have tried introducing bounties payable to divers who catch lionfish. |
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| Most don't survive, but a few, like the lionfish, not only thrive but pretty much take over. |
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| Anything that emerged from the night's catch — squirrelfish or parrot fish, milky-eyed goatfish dead in the ropes, sling-jawed lionfish with their wings twisted — now lies spread in smudged colors across the Frenchman's bed. |
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| Spotfin lionfish, palette surgeonfish, foxface rabbitfish and red firefish are sequestered in their own venomous creatures tank. |
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| The Fat Cat Finimals feature animals made to look like fish, with characters including cowfish, dogfish, lionfish and more. |
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| You only have to step off the beach at Exmouth or Coral Bay to see clownfish bathing in anemone tentacles, lionfish and predatory moray eels as well as hundreds of other species of tropical fish. |
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| They focussed instead on profitable species like conch, mahimahi, parrotfish, tarpon, tuna, and wahoo, while lionfish ravaged reefs and displaced native species. |
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| But there may be an answer: prove that the lionfish is not in fact a top predator after all, by getting people to eat it. That is the method proposed by Sean Dimin, one of the owners of a firm called Sea to Table. |
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| The fact is that Pterois volitans, the red lionfish native to the IndoPacific, is on the loose in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and it's multiplying like crazy. |
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| Part of the tournament includes the 4th Annual Lionfish Round-Up, a derby to help knock down some of the burgeoning lionfish populations in the waters. |
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| Their Asian carp ceviche and braised lionfish filet in brown butter sauce were well-received at a recent tasting, according to the New York Times. |
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| From June 27 to 29, the five-person manned submersible Antipodes will take scientists on a series of dives off the Florida coast to study the growing lionfish population. |
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| Prof Warrel added that many species of venomous fish such as stingrays, catfish, stonefish, lionfish, jellyfish etc inhabit the tropical water of the Gulf and Arabian Sea. |
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