lionfish

"WANTED", says the poster of a lionfish on the quayside in Larnaca marina.

Summary: Lebanese fisherman Hasan Younes has been diving the same waters off his coastal hometown for three decades, but has never seen anything like this year, as native species disappear and invasive lionfish take their place.

The design of the fish is similar to that of the lionfish. Robert Shepherd, the director of (https://orl.mae.cornell.edu/) Cornell's Organic Robotics Lab said the robot fish can fan its pectoral fins and (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/robot-fish-blood-study-trnd/index.html) swim more than 1.5 body lengths per minute , this is about 15 centimeters (about 6 inch) per minute.

Diving a few meters deeper, a lionfish that seems to be resting in a group of large corals can be spotted.

MAY 18-19: Emerald Coast Lionfish Tournament, Destin

In Banco Chinchorro, Mexico, the first lionfish (14 cm total length) was captured by a fisherman nearby Cayo Centro area, at 3 m water depth on 9 July 2009.

Invasive Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans reduce abundance and species richness of native Bahamian coral-reef fishes.

In the preliminary findings presented Tuesday, the scientists said the ecosystem found in the island's coral reefs was surprisingly healthy. They also found an alarmingly high number of lionfish - an invasive species that has become a growing marine menace in the Western Hemisphere, the  (http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-cuba-sea-mission-finds-healthy-reefs-invasive-48441109) ABC  reported. 

SPENCER GREEN/AP IMAGES (ASIAN CARP); CARLES SOLER/AGE FOTOSTOCK/ ALAMY (MONGOOSE); REINHARD DIRSCHERL/ALAMY (LIONFISH); MARK RANDALL/SUNSENTINEL/ZUMA WIRE (BURMESE PYTHON)

During the last decade, considerable efforts were made to understand and eradicate one of the most important invasive predators in the Atlantic, the Indo-Pacific lionfish complex: the red lionfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) and the devil fire-fish Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828).

You can get up close to sharks, moray eels and deadly lionfish at Rhyl SeaQuarium.

at The Heights Center, the public is invited to join celebrated local chefs that will present a unique twist on Florida fare - delectable lionfish from Gulf waters.