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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Offers Up to $5,000 to Kill Lionfish

posted by martyb on Friday June 22 2018, @10:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the fishing-for-a-solution dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Friday June 22 2018, @12:17PM (3 children)

    by Aiwendil (531) on Friday June 22 2018, @12:17PM (#696692) Journal

    ok, from roe, how long does it take lionfish to grow? I mean, if it is one of those spieces with insanely short timespan they might just have ended up with a remake of how well it worked for the brits to get rid of snakes in India.

    And for that matter, how many lionfish does $4500 get you? ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 22 2018, @12:33PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 22 2018, @12:33PM (#696703) Journal

    ok, from roe, how long does it take lionfish to grow?

    Growt like in what? Like "until of commercial size" or like "until sexually mature"?

    Required culling rate [wikipedia.org]

    A 2010 study showed effective maintenance would require the monthly harvest of at least 27% of the adult population. Because lionfish are able to reproduce monthly, this effort must be maintained throughout the entire year

    Lionfish as Food [wikipedia.org]

    The "Lionfish as Food" campaign encourages human hunting of the fish as the only form of control known to date. ... To promote the campaign, the Roman Catholic Church in Colombia agreed to have their clergy's sermons suggest to their parishioners (84% of the population) to eat the fish species on Fridays, Lent and Easter, which proved highly successful to decrease the invasive fish problem.

    Now, on the same line, I'd suggest an increased in the quota of Chinese immigration for Florida: the Chinese will eat anything that swims and is not a submarine. They'll make it tasty, too.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Friday June 22 2018, @05:10PM

      by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 22 2018, @05:10PM (#696837) Journal

      Grilled Lionfish is delicious. It's not a trash fish. I'd put it up against any other white fish in a taste test.

      As a top predator, it's probably not economical to farm these. They are territorial carnivorous cannibals. Any one of those makes it hard to farm a species. All three makes it extremely difficult.

    • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Friday June 22 2018, @05:58PM

      by Aiwendil (531) on Friday June 22 2018, @05:58PM (#696866) Journal

      Growt like in what?

      Like in whatever is required for the competition...