this is why you shouldnt release your fish...

[bozack]

The one video I saw on CNN actually showed a bunch of researchers going down pretty regularly and bagging them up by the bag full. Kind of sad to just nag em up and kill em but has to be done.

There is a similiar problem going on in the everglades from pet boas and pythons being let go in the glades and now growing and producing like crazy too

[BJanecka]

bummer

[MikeP]

Pretty sure the Lionfish are now here to stay. If they moved from Miami to Cape Hatteras in under a decade they must have well established breeding colonies. Not much other than a large grouper or sometimes a hungry moray will eat lions in the wild (Pacific). Once they get into the warm temeperate areas of the Atlantic coast there are fewer predators than in their natural environment.