Re: Lionfish Blinding test
Beautiful fish, though... we have them now in San Blas, Panama. Of course they take their toll on the local species, but one day they will meet a predator too, or their number will be balanced by the lack of their preys.. I'd rather not try to find a cure that could prove to be worse than the problem. By the way, do they have a predator in the Indo-Pacific? not much we can do, I guess, except find new recipes for a pterois-snack once in a while.
In Panama, we have now tarpons on the Pacific side, by the way... no doubt that they came through the canal, either alive or as eggs... but they seem to have found a nice environment, a friend of mine took a 2-meters specimen with a rapala 2 years ago. From Panama, they might invade Costa Rica one day and continue north...
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