Eating Invasive Species

Florida fishing derbies have a new target – to catch the invasive lionfish which threaten the Keys’ ecosystem, reports the New York Times.  The lionfish is from the Indo-Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea, and was introduced sometime in the 1990’s. Already, the lionfish have spread up the East Coast to North Carolina an...

Eating An Invader: Lionfish

In the wild, lionfish are greedy predators that have invaded the Caribbean and eastern US seacoast.  They gobble up native fish and damage ecosystems, an...