Lionfish threatening marine wildlife

Kinda makes me wonder why more lionfish aren't caught and sold to saltwater aquarium owners.

How do they taste??? Wonder if we could make it in a good "Meuniere" sauce... or perhaps Lionfish sauce Nantua

I think they're making a mountain out of a mole hill here. Just relax. Nature will sort it out.

No-one knows how lionfish got into the Caribbean. I'm sure they didn't swim all the way from the Pacific / Indian Ocean on its own. Heh.

Well said, all. Some unconscious person introduced Northern Pike to a river fed series of lakes hear in Montana that had an excellent native fishery for trout of all kinds, salmon, etc. The Pike have no natural predators in these waters and now the lakes are empty of most everything except Pike and they are now eating each other. This was done by a "sportsman" who thought Pike fishing was the cat's ass. Goodbye trout and salmon fishing. But this is a relatively closed system, the ocean is not. As to taste, pretty sure they are poison, at least their spines. Doesn't mean they can't be eaten tho... [More]

I don't believe in "invasive" species. If the Lionfish somehow got there and is doing well, that's only nature doing what it does. "Survival of the fittest", as the case may be. And yes, Lionfish are incredibly toxic. Eating them would probably be a bad idea.

I don't believe in "invasive" species. If the Lionfish somehow got there and is doing well, that's only nature doing what it does. "Survival of the fittest", as the case may be. And yes, Lionfish are incredibly toxic. Eating them would probably be a bad idea. You are confusing venomous with poisonous, a Fugu Pufferfish is poisonous and if you eat the wrong part of it, such as the liver, you can die. A Lionfish is venomous and its venom is probably confined to glands at the base of its dorsal fin spines, its flesh should be perfectly safe to eat. It is no different than people eating rattlesnak... [More]