[Coral-List] Education and awareness about Lionfish

[Tricia Greaux]

My home country, St. Kitts, is trying to educate the public about lionfish through different mediums such as this one.
 
http://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/32880
 
Tricia Greaux 
Undergrad Marine Biology major
University of the Virgin Islands

 

> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:26:14 -0700
> From: rudy_bonn at yahoo.com
> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] New tool for lionfish invasion
> 
> We use a similar spear at Reef Relief, however it is important to remember that people need to understand that physical contact with the reef needs to be avoided at all costs.  It looks as though diver in the video is coming into physical contact with the substrate via the spear!  This should be part of the educational component that is--- teaching people using tools like this to avoid any physical contact with corals and other benthos.  Sometimes we do more harm than good regardless of our good intentions. 
> 
> Rudy S Bonn
> Director of Marine Projects
> Reef Relief
> 631 Greene Street
> Key West, FL 33040
> 305-294-3100
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