Lionfish Hunters in the Cayman Islands

Matt Rogers · Sep 18, 2009

Cayman now has more than certified 200 lionfish hunters.
Eighteen of those hunters took the water on a dedicated lionfish catching expedition with Divetech over the past two weekends and netted six of the beautiful but dangerous red lionfish.

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The infestation of lionfish is thought to have begun when six of the fish were accidentally released from an aquarium into Biscayne Bay in Florida during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Since then, they have been found along the east coast of the United States from Florida to Massachusetts, as well as in Bermuda and throughout the Bahamas and in other Caribbean nations such as Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Cuba in depths ranging from two to 500 feet.

Lionfish are capable of reproducing from the age of one year, and can lay up to 30,000 eggs each month.
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Cayman Islands - Cay Compass News Online - Lionfish hunters on the rise

missionsix · Sep 18, 2009

I guess destroying them is the safest thing to do. I first wondered if they were making money somehow to cover the hunt by selling them. There are bounties on fish here in Oregon all the time.

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