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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: 3, Interesting) by ledow on Friday June 22 2018, @10:30AM (10 children)
Hold on.
You want rid of them.
But they are tasty, edible and readily-available.
Don't just kill them... harvest the damn things and turn them into fish pie (they aren't the prettiest thing to eat, I grant you).
If they were inedible, sure. Cull them, if they are interfering. But if they are edible and in abundance, someone would already be fishing them and selling them on, I'd imagine.
Hell, at one point there were no less than 20 entirely unrelated and dissimilar species of fish being sold as "Cod" for food in the UK and nobody ever noticed.
When you then ramp down to the super-cheap "generic seafood pie", pretty much anything can go.
This is like paying the piper for every bit of cheese he brings you, not rats.
(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.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday June 22 2018, @11:28AM (5 children)
Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of lionfish -- and don't worry, they will be around long after we are gone.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:58PM (4 children)
When are you leaving?
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday June 22 2018, @06:20PM (3 children)
January 20, 2025.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @06:57PM (2 children)
Don't count on that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:10PM (1 child)
I give it about the same chance as i give Hillary's 95% chance of winning.
That said, i will vote michelle obama if someone can get her to run. How much would it hurt Hillary to see her entire legacy written over by someone who appears to actually be a decent person?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:50PM
She's an old woman with health problems. She may not get to see who becomes the first female POTUS.
(Score: 2) by jimbrooking on Friday June 22 2018, @02:57PM
I've had lionfish filets gently seasoned and cooked over a wood fire. They're delicious!