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From its original home in the warm waters of the Pacific, it’s conquered oceans thousands of miles away - even as far as Cyprus.
We learn how the lionfish escaped its native waters and explore the destructive impact it has on reefs around the world. Concerned scientists have developed some unusual solutions for controlling it, starting with knife and fork…
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I live in Lebanon, and we have a long line of fishermen in my family. Lionfish who crossed into our waters from the Suez Canal have done visible damages to our reefs, which has been catastrophic for us economically. Our waters are nowhere near as lively as before, and local native species like sea breams and mullets are becoming rarer and harder to catch compared to 10 years ago. Some people have strated eating lionfish, but a lot of local fishermen are too afraid of handling it because of the venomous spines and usually throw it back after catching it which is why the population has not been controlled.
Hey im lebanese too. I completely agree man, its a huge problem that needs mass awareness
Instead of blaming a fish why don’t you stop polluting your sea ? Is all about the global heat stop the blame on this fish. Other species may have gone deeper too hard to catch they have to adapt same as us humans.
@@Andy34_24 i'm not blaming the fish itself. the fish is a tropical species that found itself a new biological niche, warming waters caused by pollution is the main culprit and you are right about that.
Lion fish shawarma is the solution. It's obvious
@@MoMo-ib9ej IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN
We have them throughout the Caribbean, but our diving community feels obligated to hunt as many as possible. Every dive trip seems to have at least one person with a pole spear and one with a zoo keeper. We catch what we can, sometimes about 30 per weekend (3-4 dives). They taste great grilled, and even better fried.
Yep it's a really good fish
They go rather well in a Fish Pie too! Delicious fish!
I don 't think there are enough spear fisherman to make a dent
@@Nigelrathbone1 Just put enough groupers, wrasses and giant eels in the sea and these lionfish population will be controlled. The problem is that these fishes are rare in the Atlantic and the Carribean because of overfishing.
They’re to ugly for me to eat lol but thanks lol
"How lion fish took of Cyprus waters"
Spends half the video talking about Florida
Lol
Yea because it is about the "how" not the "where"
Then you will see that the Lionfish has to be fed too. So how does it help ?
From Red Sea
😂
Lionfish: I'm the world's most skillful invader🐠.
Human: hold my pan.
humans in process of invading other planets 🙃
While in the Florida Keys I attempted to eat lionfish at one of the many restaurants but I only found one that had it as a regular menu item and that restaurant is only open for dinner when I was not nearby to take advantage of it. I hope more restaurants there and around the world will get onboard with this as a regular menu item.
@Maaku Too Not true at all.. Lionfish are still a gigantic issue in the keys and the rest of Florida.
@Maaku Too you don’t have to be a prick. So yeah come down here and work in the commercial setting like I do, you’ll know first hand how bad it actually is. At the moment there are many volunteer groups that are allowed to spear the on the reef sanctuaries, whereas nobody else can collect anything from these places.
Outside of the sanctuaries, there are tournaments, some with prize money and you’ll see these people come in with literal boat loads. There is one such tournament in Marathon where all the fish gets cooked as soon as it’s ashore and it gets handed out for free to anyone that wants to eat it. Still though, this barely helps.
I have such an impression Americans tend to eat only a very narrow range of meats, like beef and salmon. If the fish can arrive at Asia at a decent price, there are 3 billion people waiting for them who are not as skeptical at a food source.
I just heard it's actually delicious.
@@serena-yu I agree but the impression of Asia is to eat literally everything including shark fins which is barbaric.
So lionfish are kinda like feral hogs, both are incredibly destructive invasive species in the ecosystems they inhabit and both taste great
what?
what country are you from
I think cats are tastier
don't eat my dog pls
@@sussy-amogus-toilet he said hogs not dogs, hogs are pigs.
"if you can't beat it, eat it"
-i'll take the entire stock
Yeah I remember when we were younger, like around 1998, we used to go to the Keys every July for the Lobster Mini Season. You never saw these things. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that I first saw a fisherman catch one at the Ft. Pierce inlet and everyone gathered around because we were all used to seeing these things strictly in fish tanks. Fast forward to around 2010 and now when we go lobstering the hotels, fish shops and everyplace else warns us about the Lion fish. Explaining that each year more and more people are getting stung while lobstering. Just like how the Python and the Iguana have taken over florida because idiotic and ignorant pet owners decide they should let their pets go in the wild was better than selling or euthanizing the animal, they did the same with the lion fish and now we have an epidemic of invasive and dangerous fish in our waters. Thanks ignorant pet owners! We can always count of you doing the wrong thing! I wonder what invasive species of animal or fish dumb people will introduce into environments they don’t belong in next!
Amen.
Yup. It's disgusting how weak and indulgent and irresponsible "pet" owners and others can be. Zero thought for the future, only "my convenience now." On the other hand, this is not so exotic-- people gift their kids AND others with puppies and kittens all the time, only to see those poor creatures neglected or killed directly, left off on the side of the road, sold, drowned, or otherwise abandoned.
Lion fish aren’t as bad anymore in Florida 20 years ago was there worst.
@@fishingaddicts4739 You said it. After i made this post I started asking others who go lobstering during Florida’s mini season and regular lobster season if they run into packs of lion fish anymore and i was surprised by the answer. People are now hunting these buggers down for their delicious meat. I even got to eat one and it taste like red or mangrove snapper. So people’s hunger are actually making a dent in these invasive little monsters.
I don't mind the iguanas; they steal hibiscus flowers but are otherwise cool animals. Hopefully the Pythons and other invasive snakes will be hunted to extinction but I kinda hope the iguanas are here to stay cause they're cool. Also, I'd argue that imports of have brought much worse creatures than stupid pet owners, Prime examples, chestnut blight, fire ants, emerald ash bore, Widow spiders, Japanese Honey suckle, nonnative grasses, tumble weeds and I could find many other examples. :)
"If you can't beat it, eat it." Love this!
This is one of the reasons I am a huge advocate of right regulations on the pet industry. There are far too many irresponsible people that get fad pets then decide they don’t want them. Florida is overrun by invasive animals due to people wanting exotic pets like pythons, iguanas, pea fowl, & of course the lion fish.
At least no one got infatuated with piranhas yet.
Yeah, thats a depressing sight on youtube as well, lots of videos of people with non domesticated exotic pets getting millions of views. It drives the perception that they're an appropriate pet, which leads to abandonment, injury when they snap, lack of care for the animal's needs etc. I cringe every time I see another stupid caracal video
There should be licences for pet ownership.
Hi Sandra! Yes, please!
I have a restaurant in the Caribbean populated by lionfish. But nobody were able to help me to buy lionfish from local fisherman. And some that do, sell them for extremely expensive (not a really great way to introduce people into eating a new type of fish with high price).
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We're curious... would you eat lionfish?
No im vegan
Eventhough it is bad for the ecosystem it is still living
I'm not sure... Lol no, don't think so... Lol
Yeah, why not , If I see this n the market and the price is affordable I will go for it.
@@aki-fi3gk even it's still living it should be eradicated from the Atlantic it is destroying many ecosystems
@@chesterdagoc5915 There got to be another way other than eating them. I liked the idea of teaching shark s to eat them
This remind me of the situation we Vietnamese have with Red Eared Slider. In the early 2010s, these turtles often made headline as people back then had no idea what to do with them. That was until someone found out that their meat taste better than our local turtles and it's quite rare to spot them in the wild nowadays.
I dont really eat any fish, but a year or two ago I watched some videos of people fishing and cooking lionfish. I've wanted to eat it ever since, it looks so incredibly good. Even for a person like me that doesn't like fish. This is making me want to go to Cyprus so I can finally taste them lol.
Btw If you go, go to phaphos zoo if you want if you do go to the show and pet the owl niya
@@froggygoblin6514 Yes let's pay money to pet an owl in captivity 🤦🏽
Dont forget you can go to tje Caribbean too for these bastards
I can vouch for its tastiness 😋
I live in Crete and I'm seeing many lionfish in my local fish market lately so maybe I'll try it
I was in the aquarium business for over 20 years in the Miami area. I can say with 100% certainty the Lionfish invasion was caused by aquarium owners. The Lionfish are very cute when they are small (under 5 inches long" but they grow very fast. You get a little one, say 2 inches from head to tail, and in a year it can reach 8-10 inches. Their growth is not limited by the size aquarium they are kept in so people release them. They are good to eat because they are part of the grouper family. Thankfully they do not get as large as most groupers. I think 12-14 inches from head to tail is about the max they will grow. Some groupers will get a big as 6-7 feet long and hundreds of pounds.
They're not part of the grouper family (Serranidae), they're related to scorpionfishes (Scorpaenidae) and stonefishes (Synanceiidae).
Lion fish r beautiful but definitely a problem where their not found naturally. Thanks for another great video.
Love your channel for the high quality and well produced content, and also your realistic and well research approach about the conservation of the environment.
Yesss
Amazing to see this story finally covered & published! And what a perfect timing with Johnny Harris’ Cyprus series released this week. Great video - I miss you friends! Can’t wait to be back!
"If you can't beat it, then eat it.."😅😅
Dat's some great words over there...
Never knew *FRYING PANS* can become *_SURPRISING WEAPONS_* 😂😂
The name "Dragonfish" 🐲is more apt for the lion fish..😂😂
Vorefish is also a good name.
They’re called dragonfish in my language, which is Norwegian.
@@devinsmith4790 That would be the gulper eel
Personally I think the name fits: lion colours, fins looking like lion manes, lion's lethargy, lion's status as apex predator...
@@biomutarist6832 the coloration is more of a tiger than lion tho
Killer whales are currently invading completely new territories in the far north, completely re-shaping the Arctic: ▶czcams.com/video/FsAfZxyw3r0/video.html
Let's hunt and eat them.
I have tasted this fish in its native habitat, and I can tell you they are not tasty, even local fishermen hate this fish because of its unpleasant taste compared to other fish.
Nice propaganda that they taste good though 👍.
May I suggest harvesting these creatures and turning them into organic fertilizer or fish meal? To be honest a sh!tty tilapia fish is more palatable than this one
i doubt this is purposely released by the biological laboratory ships on other places without the lionfish so that the people cannot go on fishing to cause food crisis just like how they sabotage the food storage or doing their Tyrannical Foolicies(policies) to suppress and oppress those farmers..
If they have no natural enemies we should give them one. I heard of a primate who is great in eradicating other species, already did it with hundreds of species. They are even trying to eradicate themselves sometimes intentonal and sometimes not even a bit. We should ask them.
Hmm yes hmmm hmmmmmmmmmm
Hmmmm i wonder hmmmmmm spices...yes mmmmm
@@uwuowo4856 chili misspelled one word, but you misspelled your screen name: sad ass...
You mean the n word people?
Oi Chilli, yeah joke.
But did you even watch the full video?
We're already hunting them to reduce or exterminate their numbers in places they were never supposed to be. They even are training Sharks to start eating Lionfish
@@thePronto yeah sry autocorrection
I always look forward to these tysm!
"If you can't beat it, eat it."
I see you're followers of Rimuru Tempest as well.
Lionfish looks like a business opportunity waiting to happen
Oh wow! Had no idea about this. Regards from the Island of Cyprus 🏝️🏝️🏝️🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾
The sea around Cyprus is already overfished as well, so this might be the deathknell for the marine ecosystem.
I worked there as a scuba instructor back in 2010. I remember there was another invasive predatory fish there even back then, that was poisonous (to eat) and wrecking havoc on local fish populations. Possibly toadfish.
@@OnlyKaerius what part of Cyprus were you at? Il have to read up about that, sounds interesting
@@mariaq8087 First in Ayia Napa, then in Pernera.
@@OnlyKaerius very nice. Ayia Napa is beautiful, maybe one day youl return again.
Toadfish or rabbitfish as we call it in cyprus is the other invasive species in our seas. Along with lionfish plus overfishing they pose a great threat to the local ecosystem.
Lionfish kinda reminded me of a mobile game called Shark Evolution
hungry shark evolution
@@Engifarting456 yep.
As a professional SCUBA Diver working in Cancún and Riviera Maya for half a decade, I can tell you first hand about the damage these guys can inflict upon reefs. They’re remarkably tough and adaptable, not to mention that they lay thousands upon thousands of eggs from a single female. Even worse, when they feel threatened or heavily injured, they will release their eggs into the water. There’s little hope at keeping these fellas under control, unfortunately.
Hi El, oh man... :( thanks for sharing your experience with us
😂😂😂 All we have to do is over-eat them
Great video - thank you!
"If you can't beat em', Eat em'!" - Jeff Daimer
I eat lionfish at least 1 once a week from some local restaurant's here in Florida. Absolutely delicious creatures
They found the first ones in the Adriatic recently. Just near my home. So it begins.
Great vid!
Haven't had lionfish yet, can't wait to get some : )P
Eradicating lionfish by eating them is not practical. It is very expensive to harvest lionfish in large quantity. As a simple evidence, you could never see any affordable seafood in your local supermarkert, which are caught by divers by hand.
They were definitely talking about vacations, obviously you won't find it in Walmart.
You can actually find quite a large amount of affordable fish at areas like Ralph's or Vons, forgot which one exactly but you can even get certain lobsters for 15 bucks
@@larrygaroth9773 that's not relevant to the discussion. Also I don't live in the US.
@@larrygaroth9773 Not sure for the fish you mentioned. But lobsters sold in market are often not caught by divers. For example, Boston lobsters are caught by cages.
Lion: I'm the king of the jungle.
Lionfish: I'm the king of the sea jungle.
Great White: I'm still here you idiot! I will never fit to a pan, only my fin though.
Great video!!!
Pterois volitans is excellent to eat & one of the ingredient of a typical sea water food of south France the Bouillabaisse ...
Once the thorns are cut, like all rock fish, it's very tasty.
All Scorpene type fish are excellent to eat , like Stone Fish , red Lion fish , these one & other species .
Awesome informative video, I had no idea they were edible, thats surely a great way as you guys mentioned to help cull them and give the other fish a chance at reproducing, as humans if something is tasty we either breed it, or make it go extinct.
We do our part, being careful when you fillet them. Almost better than snapper.
Fascinating video 🙂
Very informative video
nice video! Do you think its better to remove the lionfish from the ecosystem? or to feed them to the sharks and other local predators? I don't want sharks to recognize divers with food sources.. but stimulating natural predation would be a very efficient for removing the lionfish, especially for greater depths
I subscribed! I knew about this issue, it also doesn't help that the Suez canal allows invasive species to come in from the Red Sea. But this fish-pac-man isn't a nice addition either...
Love the Pacman-isation lol 😆
Great music accompany this.
They're right lionfish are freaking delicious! and anytime I'm in a place they've invaded I make a point to seek out a place I can eat them
I got recently stung by Lionfish last week, I hecking regret swimming and trying to touch them!
Wow I got stung in Panama and it was terrible!
Thank you Chef Ramsey... Please keep it up.
Awesome sight those manta rays gliding through the ocean. A little bit spooky , too.
reminds me of the lionfish in feeding frenzy
Same here! Cute game!
On a sidenote: They can eat 90% of their body weight daily... now THAT'S gluttony!
Xbox 360 arcade game?
@@sonarbuge7958 thats an old computer game
@@chesterdagoc5915 released for both i think
Finally, someone said it. A terror for little fishes in game and in real life
Awesome video. So what are the major factors (predators/parasites) that keep lionfish in check in the Indo-Pacific Region?
The predators recognize them as prey. Not so outside their traditional range. When hand speared however, and then left dead on the reef, sharks will zero in on their leaking bodily fluids and gobble 'em up. Likewise, moray eels will happily snap up a dead lionfish left dangling in front of their lairs. Perhsps the top predators can be schooled to eat then in the invaded areas.
I saw a video in the Pacific where eel-like creatures that hide under the seabed eat those lionfish. There are none of those creatures in the Atlantic.
Another 10/10 video
Thanks, interesting
as a fish enthusiast, i’ve never understood the lionfish hype. i find them disgusting, if i’m ever on the coast i’m intentionally eating one :^)c
I wish they would upload every day!
Hi. Jamaican here. Lionfish are a problem here but we eat so many now that our fisheries are recovering. I've eaten one myself. pretty good.
This is very interesting
Beautiful yet deadly...
It sucks how they're still invasive till this day, I didnt know they had a large appetite, I thought it was just their venom that makes it harder for them to have predators
That's why we are trying to raise more awareness about them through our video 😉
@@lenafromterramater3690 Well I cant swim nor dive to kill these guys but I sure hope the video makes others who can do the same thing, thank you for the video! Though it does teach the every day people like me to not just release exotic fishes into the wild willy nilly, not that I ever have since exotic animals dont interest me much
Why do i think people will start massive farms for these fish to profit even more and if an outbrakes happens our oceans will be doomed?
Why the hell do I think you are right? God help us
No one is going to do that.
The lion fish are going to cost more to maintain then what they are actually sold for...
Also lion fish taste like shit, the environmental groups are paying people like Gordon Ramsey to say it is a delicacy so they could promote the attempted removal of this species.
impressive infotainment.. Stay blessed.. Love n regards.. 🌷🌷👍
I'll be in Rhodos two weeks from now, also in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, I'm curious what I will find! Good video!
Worth noting that they could have been released accidentally during a hurricane and not necessarily that they were released on purpose.
Everywhere isn’t Florida, Mediterrenean shores aren’t as Flat as Fl and floods, hurricanes as big as Florida hurricanes and floods don’t happen here.
Well I had no idea these fish were a problem here, but it would certainly help to explain the obvious lack of fish nearer the coast line compared to 25 years ago when I was still a kid. Or maybe the increased levels of petrol and plastic pollution, and the noticeably warmer sea has had more of an impact!
True that’s the main reason, partially this video makes no sense
Why do I like this style docu so much
Hi Moises! We're glad you like it!
I'm not convinced on the idea that home aquarium hobbyists created this problem or even played a part in its creation for that matter.
I’m not so sure about the timeline of Lionfish in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the late 60’s and early 70’s I used to dive along the north coast of Cyprus and they were a not uncommon sight then, even in shallow waters. Could they have always been present in deeper waters and as temperatures rise they did as well?
Sea Temperatures around Cyprus are the same now as they were in the 70's, so i doubt that is the reason
Here's a theory, could they have travelled through the Suez canal.
Tell japanese to eat lionfish instead of tuna. Problem solved.
make sense
And Chinese as well They eat anything that moves
It seems that sharks can eat them without having issues with the poison so way better solution: sharks eat lion fish for us wen dont have to deal with the poison spikes and sharks will attack less humans
Facts, just give them full legal rights to every lionfish in the world
They’ll make em extinct within the year if they do
wow beautiful fish
Hi Rock!
Amazing, right? 😍
well it sounds like lion fish needs to be on every restaurants menu!!!
Hi Yakziv! That would definitely change the current situation!
It's a beautiful fish! I used to be very happy to see one on diving trips in South East Asia.
I personally think they are very ugly.
Beautiful but deadly...
Always glad to see Lionfish dead where its invading. At some point, i got obsessed with lionfish videos ever since I knew they were invasive. Now seeing more videos spreading awareness about how bad they are, i'm glad we are doing more to prevent this from happening again.
I'm never glad to see them dead. It is the humans fault that they ended up in the wromg place. But now it has to be done to safe the environment
Its also important not to see them as "bad", they're just instinctually living. They're only "bad" when not in their actual habitat.
@@karentjuhh101 A handful of selfish humans from Florida. Obviously now it is better that as many lionfish are killed as quickly as possible.
Barracuda and eel love these guys and aren’t affected by the venom
Lion fish tacos are amazing. When I visit Florida next year it's on the menu 👌
So you are brave enough to eat them?! 😊🐠
@@lenafromterramater3690 nothing a pair of scissors cant fix.
When I read “invasion in Cyprus” thought the video was gonna be about something different
Here in Colombia and all of the Caribbean we also have a massive problem with these; and all thanks to Americans from Florida who bought them as pets and then thoughtlessly released them into the ocean without any consideration of the hazards of introducing new species into a given ecosystem
Lion fish have spread everywhere from north carolina around Florida all the way to Texas waters. Depths from 10ft to 300ft plus cold water has no effect on them. However they taste pretty good when eaten.
I Sea another great knowledge..
And i‘ve heard that turkies are also slowely tqking over the island… they should learn to control this invasive species problem
they have been already there for more than 700 years. you are a lil bit late
Impossible
"If you Can't beat it...eat it.."
Same solution for the biological weapons phagocytosis..
[No Sonya, you fell in the crucible when you was little..]
I’ve caught two off these off Busselton in the Westen Australia
I would happily buy it at morrisons here in the UK
I like how they said "we're getting pay back" like it's the lion fish's fault for being released by humans... brilliant
I see this channel a lot and I did not expect a video about my country! And that's unfortunate nevertheless. Before some months some biologists created some kind of tournament with a price for the person who catch the most lionfish! And then they cooked them in public to raise awareness and people to taste them
Interesting
I just found out about this...thanks for this video. I will include lionfish in my seafood .
Hi KIRCK! Thanks for watching!
Looking at their "native range" - all the way from Korea to the frigid waters south of South Africa, they don't seem to prefer particularly warm waters. Its clearly not a tropical fish.
“these heat-loving fish are more efficient in warmer waters.” Which is why they are settling in the eastern Mediterranean.
What do you mean they are not tropical fish? Well there are not so many of them in the tropical waters because there are predators hunting them but they are native to tropical waters.
They are common here in South east asia but they are slow and easy prey for top predators in our sea, and we also eat them.
Nice job humanity. Let me know when you all feel like doing something good and monumental for the world instead of something horrible and detrimental.
Keep making a bad situation worse.
Stop hating on humanity, you are a human too.
We are apex species, and if humanity perish, another "humanity" civilization or any apex species will do the same as us.
@@mochachino56 lol
You're linking sources that are the base of your video?
damn, take my abo :-D
i knew about the american lionfish prob but i didn't know that they already start to conquer the mediteran sea ...
if they arrive in croatia, i'm happy to go dive hunting for delicious lionfish :>
They have already arrived in South Albania. I would say its only a matter of time, but then again, the part of of the Adriatic sea from the middle of Albania up to Croatia has mostly sandy bottom. That might prevent them from invading that part of the Mediterranean.
Crossed paths with one snorkeling in Hurghada, 10 meters from the Hotel beach... Calm dudes, just have to leave them alone
So it's only a problem brought to light because it's cutting into profits for humans that do even more overfishing lmao. Damn these fish eating all these other fish that we could be selling 😂
No, I’m pretty sure he mentioned the fact that fish populations dropped by 65%, their prey are vital to ecosystem balance, and their presence caused damage to the entire area the are present when invasive.
@@kaleb8082 They must be eating all the whales and sharks in the ocean as well.
@@clockworkNate I don't think you understand how an ecosystem works. Adding predators is good, adding predators that don't have other predators in the region (none-native species) and with a fast reproduction rate, you have a problem! Sharks and whales have a very low reproduction rate and are native nearly everywhere as they're travelers, they're generally good for the ecosystems.
Lionfish are not very hard to catch because they have an aggressive nature so they instinctively stand their ground. The one I had in my aquarium would then somewhat move his fins outwards and foreward daring you to touch him. I was told his sting was 3x that of a bee sting. I don't know if that's accurate. When cleaning the tank he resists being moved out of the way. Truly awesome fish to watch.
So beautifull
Wow i’m definitely going to search for this fish in the bulgarian fish market ✅
Just tell China that this particular fish has medicinal benefits and it would be extinct in no time.
Great idea
Making games out of killing fish won’t help anyone long term, if they are kept in check people will still want to hunt them even if it’s in there native habitat
Nope
Well that's a pretty good strategy for sure 😆😂
Such lion fishy stung me once. I thought I´d go crazy from pain. Don´t mess with them, they can attack.