A new bahamian fish

[spawner]

New to the Bahamas anyway, hope they like them :roll:

The Indo-Pacific red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Pisces: Scorpaenidae), new to Bahamian ichthyofauna. Coral Reefs 10.1007/s00338-006-0176-8

D. B. Snyder and G. H. Burgess

Continental Shelf Associates, Inc., 759 Parkway Street, Jupiter, FL 33477, USA

Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA


Found in the Abacos on Little Bahama Bank,Walkers Cay,Great Exuma Island,Spanish
Cay (Abacos), Harbor Island (Eleuthera), Cat Island, and New
Providence.

 

[Anonymous]

:? still Waiting for tridacnids!

 

[bookfish]

Well, that was inevitable. From Florida to the Bahamas would be a natural route of population growth for these fish. Someone should start a blackcap and swissguard breeding program immediately. Also, it may be the last of the already difficult to get brotulids.

 

[Justin74]

How does this sort of thing happen?
Murphy's Law?

-Justin

 

[Justin74]

The the other thread reminds me of Atl GA, and all the shops closing and turning over, maybe a tank full was dumped in the bay? 8O
Wonder what kind of impact this could bring. Any speculation?

-Justin

 

[Anonymous]

Also, it may be the last of the already difficult to get brotulids.

::boggle::
People keep brotulids?

"Hey man, check out this new brotulid I added to the tank!"
"Um.... I don't see anything."
"Keep looking."
(20 minutes later) "Um... I still don't see anything."
"Exactly! Isn't he great?"

 

[Anonymous]

This is definetely not new to the people of the Bahamas or fellow reefers there. Fellow reefer at www.reeffrontiers.com caught one and the thread pretty much gives you an idea how they're dealing with the situation. :roll:

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/sho ... t=lionfish

 

[Anonymous]

heh another useless bb that requires a login to view a thread

 

[M_Phobos]

Bahamian fish?

I think it's far more interesting that Pterois volitans is a new NEW ENGLAND fish. (found as far north as RI)



Cheers,
Austin

 

[Anonymous]

When I was diving in RI collecting tropicals in August there were several people saying they saw some out there. But it must have been some sort of national secret because when I asked where they saw them no one knew. Perhaps next year I can find me one.

 

[M_Phobos]

I can't remember the publications I saw the articles in...but I'm certain I saw two in the same month earlier in the fall. One was in "Alert Diver" (the publication of Divers' Alert Network...no surprise since one of their specialty courses in in dealing with injuries caused by marine life..esp. envenomation)..the other was in "Science"...I believe.

Later,
Austin

 

[spawner]

I have a friend that caught 200 or so in Long Island Sound, NY this summer

They are working up the Gulf Stream; many tropicals do. They die out in the winter, the ones in the Bahamas, Florida and NC are spawning and growing the heard, soon you'll have 1000s in NY when gulf stream kicks a warm water current to shore. The birth of a new fishery.

 

[Anonymous]

200 lion fish or 200 tropicals altogether? Where was he going for them? I don't think I have seen 200 in any one season and I have dove the long island sound. You can find better visibility in tomato soup. That's amazing that they got 200.

 

[M_Phobos]

LOL JP....try diving the Oregon coast if you enjoy the "hand in front of face" style visibility. It's HID dive lights in 40' @ high noon around here almost all the time.

Now the Puget Sound...there's a dive site. No tidal worries, 40' viz, and the occasional six-gill (or white if you're THAT unlucky.. ) tossed in for good measure.

But here I am taking this thread in the wrong direction...sorry...it's been over a month since I've been in the water and I'm starting to go a tad stir-crazy! lol

Later,
Austin

 

[JeremyR]

I know a couple of years ago one of the guys at atlantis marine world was talking about catching lionfish, at that time it was a new thing.. but I had some locals tell me about them this year here in mass/ri.

 

[bookfish]

Way back when I was a youngster on the east coast, my killie club would take field trips to Cape Cod in the fall to collect juvenile butterflies, pipefish, damsels etc... that all rode up from Florida. Of course we also collected killies!-Jim

 

[JeremyR]

Why would you collect killies?