[Coral-List] Lionfish in the Atlantic
Christopher Hawkins
chwkins at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 19 17:38:32 EST 2008
It would seem that they've "made it". They are the focus of a recent NOAA assessment and we have included them in our write-up of the socio-economics impacts of invasive species of the coastal marine waters and the Laurentian Great Lakes of the United States, which is currently in prep as a NOAA Technical Memorandum (Loomis, O'Connor, and Hawkins).
Chris
The lion fish here off of NC are everywhere
offshore. And I saw a dive
article about there abundance elsewhere in
Caribbean. They are
definitely established in the Atlantic, and can
now be considered
invasive. They'll probably have a major effect
on small reef fishes
such as gobies and blennies.
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Dr. Alina M. Szmant
Coral Reef Research Group
UNCW-Center for Marine Science
5600 Marvin K. Moss Ln
Wilmington NC 28409
Tel: (910)962-2362 & Fax: (910)962-2410
Cell: (910)200-3913
email: szmanta at uncw.edu
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