[Coral-List] Lionfish in Little Cayman

Sun Feb 1 19:13:27 EST 2009

Unfortunately, we have 2 lionfish in a tank at the Little Cayman Research
Centre. Divers caught them last week.  
It has been an entire year since the first sighting on Little Cayman.
Several (6) more fish are being reported on the reef in Little Cayman.
Fish are being sighted in Bloody Bay Marine Park which is located on the
north side of the island and on the south side of the island as well.
The local Department of Environment is monitoring the situation. 

CCMI completed a rapid assessment in August 2008 and found no lionfish.  We
have a rapid assessment planned for August 2009.  
Please visit our website if anyone is interested in participating.

Carrie Manfrino
Central Caribbean Marine Institute
PO Box 1461
Princeton, NJ 08540
http://reefresearch.org

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   1. Lionfish in Puerto Rico (Steve LeGore)
   2. Re: Lionfish in Puerto Rico (Hernandez Edwin)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:49:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve LeGore <slegore at mindspring.com>
Subject: [Coral-List] Lionfish in Puerto Rico
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A friend, a marine ornamental fish collector, tells me he captured a
lionfish in Bahia Montalvo adjacent to one of the mid-bay mangrove islands
on Saturday, January 17th.  The water was about 6 ft deep and the 5.5
inch-long fish was found in a grass bed with mud bottom.

The catch has been reported to local NOAA folks, who visited and
photographed the fish, and who were scheduled to visit the site for taking
GPS coordinates, so I assuem a more formal report will be forthcoming.

Steve

Steve LeGore, Ph.D.
LeGore Environmental Associates, Inc.
2804 Gulf Drive N.
Holmes Beach, Florida 34217 USA
Executive Director,
Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
Tel: 941/778-4650
Fax: 941/778-4761
Cell: 941/447-8010
GMT + 4 hrs
http://www.devex.com/SteveLeGore

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:24:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Hernandez Edwin <coral_giac at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Lionfish in Puerto Rico
To: Coral List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>,	Steve LeGore
	<slegore at mindspring.com>
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Hola, Steve et al.

According to local fishermen in Culebra Island, 27 km east of Puerto Rico,
when some of theme were confronted with lionfish pictures they claimed
having seen the fish for the past 10-15 years or so around Los Corchos and
La Puso reefs, east of Culebra, particularly in deeper waters, 80-140 feet.
They described their shape, color, size, behavior, and preferred reef
habitat perfectly matching the known characteristics of the species. These
are the northeasternmost coral reefs of PR state waters, and are located
several km west-northwest of Red Hind Bank, St. Thomas, USVI. I have not
personally seen any of them yet.

Regards.

Edwin

Edwin A. Hern?ndez-Delgado, Ph.D. 
Affiliate Researcher 

University of Puerto Rico
Department of Biology
Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation Coral Reef Research
Group P.O. Box 23360 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3360 

Tel (787) 764-0000, x-2009
Fax (787) 764-2610 

e-mail: coral_giac at yahoo.com 

Web page: http://ccri.uprm.edu/researcher/Hernandez/ 
          http://crest-catec.upr.edu/

--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Steve LeGore <slegore at mindspring.com> wrote:
From: Steve LeGore <slegore at mindspring.com>
Subject: [Coral-List] Lionfish in Puerto Rico
To: "Coral List" <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 9:49 AM

A friend, a marine ornamental fish collector, tells me he captured a
lionfish in Bahia Montalvo adjacent to one of the mid-bay mangrove islands
on Saturday, January 17th.  The water was about 6 ft deep and the 5.5
inch-long fish was found in a grass bed with mud bottom.

The catch has been reported to local NOAA folks, who visited and
photographed the fish, and who were scheduled to visit the site for taking
GPS coordinates, so I assuem a more formal report will be forthcoming.

Steve

Steve LeGore, Ph.D.
LeGore Environmental Associates, Inc.
2804 Gulf Drive N.
Holmes Beach, Florida 34217 USA
Executive Director,
Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
Tel: 941/778-4650
Fax: 941/778-4761
Cell: 941/447-8010
GMT + 4 hrs
http://www.devex.com/SteveLeGore
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:52:55 -0500
From: Lew Gramer <lew.gramer at noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] Interruption in mail list service - posts lost
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Our mail server here at NOAA AOML experienced a configuration problem
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