Predator Versus Alien Lionfish

Shark eating lionfish (Photo: Antonio Busiello)

Shark eating lionfish (Photo: Antonio Busiello)

We’re heading to the Caribbean for the Geo Quiz: We’re looking for the largest of the Islas de la Bahia. This island is 30 miles of the coast of Honduras.

And it’s a good place to go if you want to retire, on a budget. You can live very nicely there for a little over $ 2,000 a month.

Until recently it was good place to go if you were a lionfish. A lot of them went down to the area three or four years ago and they’ve been gobbling up local fish stocks.

So Honduran fishermen are training sharks to hunt the unwelcome guest. Suffice to say, the island may no longer be a good place to retire if you’re a lionfish.

The answer to our quiz and the place where sharks are acquiring a taste for lionfish is the island of Roatan.

Photographer Antonio Busiello took a series of stunning pictures of the shark-training program near Roatan.

Discussion

9 comments for “Predator Versus Alien Lionfish”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653732020 Katie Myster

    Interesting and has super cool photos.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653732020 Katie Myster

    Interesting and has super cool photos..

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001779351237 Jess Rivas

    Loving the pictures… I think by just hearing Lisa’s voice about how beautiful the pics were made me want to see them as well… Oh the power of radio =) Love this show!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001779351237 Jess Rivas

    Loving the pictures… I think by just hearing Lisa’s voice about how beautiful the pics were made me want to see them as well… Oh the power of radio =) Love this show!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001779351237 Jess Rivas

    Loving the pictures… I think by just hearing Lisa’s voice about how beautiful the pics were made me want to see them as well… Oh the power of radio =) Love this show!

  • http://profiles.google.com/warlordbob68 Robert Wilmott

    I understand that lionfish is rather a tasty dish and commercially fishing them may be the key to reducing their out of control population escalation. Is that true?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1010196753 Gloria Veron de Astrada

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1010196753 Gloria Veron de Astrada

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