#2935
mo - 7/16/2008 11:04 AM
No offence taken, I agree that people that release none endemic species into what is not their natural environment are being irresponsible.

There are many Lionfish in the Red sea which also has a very diverse marine life, ok they are an endemic spices to the Red sea, and like those Lionfish in the Atlantic have very few natural predators other than Octopus, as they are loners and don’t shoal up I really don’t see them being anything more than eye candy for divers.

Endemic species will for sure adapt to cope with these very beautiful fish, we always tend to react to what at first looks like a catastrophe, only to find later that if we had investigated thing in a correct manner, most of the time it’s never as bad as it first looks,

That aside as the area where these fish have been found covers 62,000 square miles and most of the Lionfish live below 30m, you have no way of eradicating them