[Coral-List] Lionfish update from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
MelissaE Keyes
melissae.keyes at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 7 10:31:11 EST 2010
Hello, Listers,
Just thought I'd drop in and report that our Lionfish population seems to be
growing. The first few were observed in 2008. There was a Lionfish Derby this
past weekend, and in one day more than fifty were caught by a 13 recreational
divers. Most were juveniles, < 7cm. There is an organized group of
recreational divers here with a goal of keeping the population less than fifteen
per hectare.
I haven't been diving in nearly a year. But as to bleaching this year, I didn't
report because the water here didn't get hotter than the normal, 28c, so I doubt
there was any or much bleaching of what little coral there is left.
Cheers,
Melissa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Melissa E. Keyes
St. Croix,
U.S.Virgin Islands
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