[Coral-List] [campam] Cayman Islands Lionfish Update
Jeremy Woodley
jdwoodley at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 5 13:30:57 EDT 2009
I agree with John that the creature is probably here to stay. However, people who have researched its life-history, natural distribution and ecology could tell us if there is some weak point at which it might be susceptible for control, or could enhance attempts to capture them. But it’s hard to imagine that divers with nets and spears can do the job: not enough divers and too many less accessible reefs.
Jeremy
--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Ernesto Weil <eweil at caribe.net> wrote:
From: Ernesto Weil <eweil at caribe.net>
Subject: RE: [campam] Cayman Islands Lionfish Update
To: "'Georgina Bustamante'" <gbustamante at bellsouth.net>, "'Bruce Potter, IRF'" <bpotter at irf.org>, "'John Ogden'" <jogden at marine.usf.edu>
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Date: Tuesday, 5 May, 2009, 5:12 PM
Dear Colleagues, instead of developing a protocol to assess
impact of lionfish on small fish populations, It seems to me that we should invest
some energy into developing a protocol to efficiently eradicate it ASAP, so
we do not have to assess their impact in small fish populations.
EW
From: Georgina Bustamante
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Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 11:25 PM
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Bastidas'; 'Rahanna Juman'; 'Ernesto Weil'; 'Eric Jordan-Dahlgren'; 'Bjorn
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F. Warner'; 'Jeremy Woodley'; 'Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute';
'Caribbean Coral Reefs'
Subject: RE: [campam] Cayman Islands Lionfish Update
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Subject: Re: [campam] Cayman Islands Lionfish Update
John -- I agree, and I thought that someone at NOAA or RSMAS
announced some time back that there was an established reporting
network?
bruce potter
At 9:44 AM -0500 5/4/09, John Ogden wrote:
>Thinking back to the Diadema mass mortality of 1983-84 and the
>opportunities that were missed because of poor communications across the
>region, now would be a very good time to use our superb and ubiquitous
>communications to set up a coordinated observation network to see what
>is the impact of lionfish on populations of small reef fishes. It
>appears that this idea could be trumped by well-meaning but ultimately
>futile attempts to remove them. Who doubts that they are here to stay?
>It would be best we anticipate the future of Caribbean reefs with
>lionfish and try to get some data to help get our minds around this.
>
>Cheers all.
>>
>> From: Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Network
>> [mailto:GCFINET at LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU]
On Behalf Of Dave Anderson
>> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:24 PM
>> To: GCFINET at LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU
>> Subject: [GCFINET] Cayman Islands Lionfish Update
>>
>>
>>
>> This message was originally submitted by Bradley Johnson
>> [mailto:Bradley.Johnson at gov.ky]
to GCFINet.
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> As of 30th April 2009 we have caught 90 lionfish! This includes the 2
caught
>> in Cayman Brac and Little Cayman in 2008 and 3 live specimens. They
have
>> been caught in water ranging from 3' down to 110', on all sides of the
>> islands, and in all habitats.
>>
>>
>>
>> By island we have:
>>
>> Grand Cayman - 44;
>>
>> Cayman Brac - 8;
>>
>> Little Cayman - 38.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cayman Brac was hit by Hurricane Paloma in November and sustained
severe
>> damage to the Island, including their dive operations. The sightings
have so
>> far been primarily from divers, so with practically no diving in the
Brac we
>> are getting fewer reports of lionfish from there. We assume this will
>> increase once the dive operations reopen.
>>
>>
>>
>> We have licensed approximately 163 divers to remove lionfish for us
having
>> 130 in Grand, 3 in the Brac, and 30 in LC. We will increase the number
of
>> licensed divers in the Brac once they get more dive staff back.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bradley C. Johnson
>> Research Officer
>> Department of Environment
>> Cayman Islands Government
>> PO Box 486
>> Grand Cayman KY1-1106
>> CAYMAN ISLANDS
>> 345-949-8469 Office
>> 345-244-4168 Direct
>> 345-949-4020 Fax
>>
>> Website www.doe.ky
>>
>>
>>
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