Reprod. in 1st exotic marine fish est. in state waters

[spawner]

You have to love Kalk, so dive industry just put them their and they stayed on the wrecks and swam south to Florida. No, nice try. Population started in Florida and uses the Gulf stream to go north as larvae. They live well in the waters at the edge of the gulf stream in NC and settle out on the wrecks. I guess the dive operations also put them in 230 feet of water, where you find most of them on the end of the shelf. This one is on us Kalk, no way around it, you and Dr. oldstein can make up all your theorys to try and push it off on something else but you can't hide the fact that their aquarium fish and have been around long before the dive operations found them.

 

[clarionreef]

Andy,
Of course the aquarium trade put them there!!!
Well not exactly the trade but the hobby!
Never mind that man behind the curtain...
Steve

 

[Kalkbreath]

There are far more lionfish in that small NC area then along the five hundred stretch of coasts of Fla Ga and SC. Its kinda fishy how the dive operators in that area started showing these fish years before the southern areas.
These fish are the number one draw now for tourist dives off NC .
What the heck else is there to see swimming off NC? Brown grunts?
The dive operator that thought of this one, tripled the dive business in that area with one bold aclimation!
Getting show size lionfish here on the east coast is a tricky event Steve.What ever they land for in LAX (35 +80 )+its 45 bucks more to get them to the East.
It will be great when one per box lionfish can be had so close to home!
8)

 

[spawner]

Kalk,

Now don't show your ignorance on this issue. They find more in the deep waters off NC because they have looked in deepwater off North Carolina. Additionally it makes perfect since for a population to invade in South Florida and use the Gulf Stream to transport up North. This is why on certain summers you can get them in Long Island Sound. Your suggesting that the dive groups and lion fish got together and decided that they would set up shop on a few wrecks where they were released, not very likely. That is really funny. Its a shame that you can't change the DNA of the fish in NC to fit your results, but what you going to find out is that the fish caught in FL are related and parented the fish off of NC.


So how do you explain that one? THE dive operators drove some fish to FL? Lets here your excuse on that one.

 

[clarionreef]

These fish are the number one draw now for tourist dives off NC .
Really???
I mean..is that true?
Steve

 

[spawner]

Yea steve, they are making a killing taking people to see the lion fish on the wrecks, its the #1 dive site off cape lookout, Morehead city. Where i dive in NC we are after Civil War and older wrecks, not lionfish. I think the same wrecks that have the lionfish use to be very popular with people seeing the schools of sandtigers, now that they have been fished out, lionfish are king.