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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @02:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @02:55PM (#696763)

    exactly what i was thinking. industry that will be devastated by lionfish need to get together (i guess they could involve the park pigs if they must) and pay for a year round program to reimburse people a reasonable amount of money for every lionfish carcass/tail whatever that they bring in to a participating fish counter. instead we get this stupid bullshit.