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"This may very well become the most devastating marine invasion in history,"

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8/14/2008 5:17 PM
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean's warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate region.

The red lionfish, a tropical native of the Indian and Pacific oceans that probably escaped from a Florida fish tank, is showing up everywhere - from the coasts of Cuba and Hispaniola to Little Cayman's pristine Bloody Bay Wall, one of the region's prime destinations for divers.

Wherever it appears, the adaptable predator corners fish and crustaceans up to half its size with its billowy fins and sucks them down in one violent gulp.

Research teams observed one lionfish eating 20 small fish in less than 30 minutes.

"This may very well become the most devastating marine invasion in history," said Mark Hixon, an Oregon State University marine ecology expert who compared lionfish to a plague of locusts. "There is probably no way to stop the invasion completely."
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Anonymous Coward
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8/14/2008 5:20 PM
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I read about brown eels in NYTimes in1990 invading florida via asia.DISCUSS.
Anonymous Coward
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8/14/2008 5:48 PM
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i personally saw these invasive lionfish while doing some fieldwork in the bahamas. one of the professors with our group told us how they're native to the pacific and have no predators here and the already damaged marine wildlife in the area has no natural defenses. these fish are quite venemous as well.
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8/14/2008 6:11 PM
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sfan
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8/14/2008 6:13 PM
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marine invasion?
Anonymous Coward
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8/14/2008 6:15 PM
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Anonymous Coward
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8/14/2008 10:38 PM
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Kudzu
Purple Loosestrife
Eurasian Watermilfoil

the beat goes on

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 485007
8/14/2008 11:04 PM
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...Africanized bees...

...negroes....
SNPP Woo Woo
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8/14/2008 11:22 PM
Re: "This may very well become the most devastating marine invasion in history,"Quote

the snakeheads will eat them
then the crazy raspberry ants will eat the snakeheads
then the Chinese needle snakes will eat the ants
then we import some gorillas to eat the needle snakes
Spirit * Man !
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8/15/2008 1:51 AM
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Let nature take its course. Nature will adapt. Law of the jungle baby !! Humans set the tone.

Soon *
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