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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: 2) by frojack on Friday June 22 2018, @04:16PM
Well, yes, as long as they recommend eating it, there will be a problem.
Florida has a horrible record trying to control species set loose (for whatever reason) in their ecosystem because there are floods, and waterways that interconnect, and seasonal counter-flows in many of them.
So making a large number of fish available for commercial restaurants will certainly build a market, and someone is certain to start raising them out in the pond on the back acreage. Which will flood. Rinse. Repeat.
Kind of reminds me of the Sea Lamprey invasion of the great lakes. They have been fighting that problem for 50-60 plus years, with
physical barriers, Lamprey specific poisons, etc. They let down their guard and they get a rebound.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/10/31/invasive-sea-lamprey-lake-superior-rebound [mprnews.org]
Customer tailored genetic measures might be a better weapon these days.
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