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Wanted dead, not alive: the lionfish. You can make $5,000 if you get rid of them
How sick of the lionfish is the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission?
Enough so to offer you up to $5,000 to catch the nasty critters and get them out of Florida waters.
The FWC's Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Challenge, running through Labor Day on Sept. 3, calls on both recreational and commercial fishermen and women to harvest lionfish and submit photos of the first 25 lionfish.
After the first 25, you have to submit tails for the chance to collect the top prize.
[...] Over the last five years, some dozen South Florida restaurants began serving lionfish on their menus because the delicate, flaky fish, often compared to hogfish and snapper, is a taste treat.
(Score: 1) by Muad'Dave on Friday June 22 2018, @11:15AM (2 children)
They are incredibly harmful, and very prolific. They want to cull them before they get enough of a foothold to be a commercially viable species. Being tasty is just a bonus for those doing the culling.
It's the same story with feral hogs in much of the southern US.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 22 2018, @05:09PM
Without needing to go "commercial fishing", not having catch limits is a great way to keep a tasty species close to extinction.
We have plenty of archives to prove it.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday June 23 2018, @01:02AM
Hey this is right in The Mighty Buzzy's round house. Don't tell me he's out fishing for crappie or catfish. He's needed by his country.
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