By Dave Hurteau

From The News-Press:

A beautiful and venomous non-native fish has made its way to the Keys, and the question is whether the species will move north and invade local artificial reefs. . . .

On Tuesday, a diver saw a juvenile lionfish on the Benwood wreck off Key Largo — it was the first documented case of lionfish in the Keys; the following day, a team from the Reef Environmental Education Foundation captured and euthanized the fish.

“These are voracious predators that eat a lot of fish. They compete with snapper and grouper and eat the young of those species[, said Brian Keller, science coordinator at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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from dwaynez wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

Whenever these species start to move in it's only a matter of time before they establish a foothold and cause problems.

Usually they are followed by another species not too long after.

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from dwaynez wrote 3 years 14 weeks ago

Whenever these species start to move in it's only a matter of time before they establish a foothold and cause problems.

Usually they are followed by another species not too long after.

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