Save The Ocean - Eat A Lionfish???

[swill]

Anybody see this? Two guys went on the show Shark Tank to get investors who will help grow a LionFish business...spearing them and marketing the meat. They said that the Lionsfish are taking over the Atlantic Ocean and needs to be stopped. I am curious, would you eat a LionFish?

http://sharktankblog.com/lionfish-in-the-shark-tank/

http://sharktanksuccess.blogspot.ca/2013/03/traditional-fisheries-lionfish.html

[Proteus]

Why not. We eat a lot of food that we have no idea about. Time has proven that humans have no problem bring fish to the brink of extinction. Lol

[paddyob]

They said lions are taking over the carribbean too. Cuba said they were introduced.

I never saw any this year but two years ago I saw several.

[subman]

Yeah I saw more lions than anything else when we went diving off of the Florida Keys. I love lions but they are hitting epic proportions. I'm in for a lion loin!

[scubadawg]

When I was diving cayman brac, a couple of years ago, the dive masters carry a spear for the lion fish, they spear one and feed it to a moray eel.
When I dove cayman brac 10 years ago, there was a lot more marine life, the lion fish really changed the marine population there.
While doing a night dive in the Red Sea, actually watch a lion fish gulp a smaller fish.

[JTang]

Hmmm.... Interesting!

I don't see why don't. We eat urchins, puffers... why not lionfish!? Let's save the ocean! :)

[toytech]

Sure , why not . Id eat my dog if my wife wouldent get mad at me though , so im not the best example.

[11purewater]

at least they come with their own tooth picks...ok maybe bad idea:neutral:

[kien]

I'd love to try and cook up some lion fish!

Lion fish are actually not native to the Atlantic. They were brought into that region either by accident or intentionally. Without a natural predator they are reaching plague proportions and wrecking the ecosystem there. You could say they are the rats of the sea in this area where they are not native. Harvesting and collecting them to extinction in the Atlantic is what scientists are hoping for :-)

[ChefFish]

As a Chef, I'd love to see stuff like Lion fish get more popular. They are an invasive species and are going to ruin a lot of the reefs. Maybe we could cut back on things like Tuna, Lobster and Cod to name a few. And I'm sure there is something edible in crown of thorns as well. All it takes is people helping to create a demand and the markets could flourish and save some reefs at the same time. Personally I have noticed the popularity of some of the less sought after species of fish grow in the last 5 years due to the shortage of and price of the more popular ones. If we don't change the way we think we are going to ruin our oceans:(
That being said look for sustainable seafood symbols on all your fish purchases and buy captive breed fish and corals whenever possible.

[saltcreep]

Lionfish are great to eat. I've had them on a few occasions and like most white meat fish, it doesn't have that strong "fishy" taste to it.

The lions are a huge problem in the Caribbean. I've only been to Grand Cayman and to Belize, where there were much larger numbers of lionfish present. Every dive in Belize we took spears with us. Most times we would get a couple, but they would be smaller. The larger ones would be deeper where I wasn't going. On many occasions nurse sharks would follow us and eat the lions right off the spears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyktW-vO3kQ

This is a problem that will never be fixed. It is too widespread and it will be a matter of time to see what affects there are on the ecosystem.

[swill]

Lionfish are great to eat. I've had them on a few occasions and like most white meat fish, it doesn't have that strong "fishy" taste to it.

The lions are a huge problem in the Caribbean. I've only been to Grand Cayman and to Belize, where there were much larger numbers of lionfish present. Every dive in Belize we took spears with us. Most times we would get a couple, but they would be smaller. The larger ones would be deeper where I wasn't going. On many occasions nurse sharks would follow us and eat the lions right off the spears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyktW-vO3kQ

This is a problem that will never be fixed. It is too widespread and it will be a matter of time to see what affects there are on the ecosystem.

Great video, I would have screamed once I saw that shark turn in my direction lol

[scubadawg]

I love diving especially if you see sharks
My first dive with sharks, was a long time ago

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/cuban-reefs/#page=1

we had sometime 50 plus sharks around us, and they were hitting my underwater strobes:)
I have been diving with sharks in the Galapagos Island (Hammerheads etc,)
Bahamas (shark feed), Honduras, Red Sea, Indonesia, plus some other places.
They are so cool:)

a few shot of a White Tip Oceanic about 10 ft long, in the Red Sea

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/scubadawg/Sharks%20Whales%20Eels/ocianic.jpg

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/scubadawg/Sharks%20Whales%20Eels/_DSC0086.jpg

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s380/scubadawg/Sharks%20Whales%20Eels/_DSC0058.jpg