Stop Flushing Your Lionfishes!

[thepudge]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/n...58379200&en=a723825a50909d5f&ei=5070&emc=eta1

 

[Liz]

I will be taking a fishing field trip anyone interest?
That is a great article!

 

[charile1]

Check out this link on RC. Join the LI club and you can collect your own.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=907747

 

[scarf_ace1981]

LI reefers have some explaning to do. :biglaugh: i just don't understand how careless people can be. letting loose exotic fish into our local waters.

the article states they don't know what the lionfish are competing w/ and eating. can't they dissect one of these thing and find out? duh!

 

[Mr.Blik]

I haven't read through the article but aren't out local waters too cold for these animals?

 

[thepudge]

they are eating what lionfish always eat in the wild - goldfish, silversides, and pom-pom crabs

I bet the atlantic's goldfish population has been decimated by these lions.. I would be surprised if they are able to find any at all!

 

[charile1]

I can guarantee you won't find any goldfish in the atlantic..... unless they are floating.

 

[digitalreefer]

If anyone wants to go diving, I've got a shore diving flag and all my gear ready to go! Just need a ride...

 

[ezee]

Hey,

I can guarantee you won't find any goldfish in the atlantic..... unless they are floating.

Um, was that a funny?

E

 

[ming]

Yes it was a funny

Goldfish = freshwater
Ocean = saltwater
therefore
goldfish + saltwater = :dead1:

 

[jiggy]

my friend goes collecting all the time. the fish drift up here on the gulf stream during the warm months, and then die during the cold months. thats y it is legal to catch them, cuz they r gonna die anyway.

 

[Deanos]

cuz they r gonna die anyway.

:sigh: The article states there's is evidence of the lionfish spawning locally, Jiggy. Please read the article.

Dean

 

[jiggy]

spawning and living?.. i spawn all over my shower tiles and i dont have any kids

 

[charile1]

spawning and living?.. i spawn all over my shower tiles and i dont have any kids

Way too much information for everyone but Ink.

 

[Deanos]

I expected as much. Since you won't or can't read the article, here's an excerpt:

"Scientists were stunned in 2001 with the discovery of evidence that the lionfish, whatever their origin, were spawning in the Atlantic. That discovery came when Mr. Gardner, then a graduate student on a field trip, found a tiny lionfish clinging to a dock piling in the Great South Bay by Fire Island."

 

[charile1]

Can't they spawn in the summer months and die off in the winter?

 

[inline6]

Can't they spawn in the summer months and die off in the winter?

Ummmmh, I wonder if the lionfishes are adapting to colder waters?

 

[ming]

Can't they spawn in the summer months and die off in the winter?

I was thinking the same thing

 

[digitalreefer]

Global warming! We'll have SPS reef diving here soon! WooHoo!

 

[DRZL]

And the great barrier reef will become a sauna