Sharks Eating Invasive Lionfish

Here's something near and dear to my heart..... I did my graduate work on hammerhead sharks and have friends that work with invasive lionfish in FL. I have heard from a number of people that lionfish is quite tasty!

Link to National Geographic Story HERE:

Two sharks ponder a possible meal of lionfish in the Honduran marine park in 2010. Divers are working on a plan to get the native predators to feast on the invasive lionfish.

"At the beginning, the divers just killed lionfish and fed sharks with them to get the sharks to develop a taste," said photographer Antonio Busiello, who observed the process in action.

"In the second step, to have the sharks develop an interest in hunting them, divers started to leave wounded lionfish so that the sharks could taste them. After a while, [the sharks] did start to hunt them and go after them."

Living up to their voracious reputations, many sharks can eat venomous prey, such as lionfish, and suffer no apparent ill effects, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.

wow as i was reading this my only thought was jeez they can stand their poison then you answered that in the end lol

I just hope the sharks can help keep the lion fish under control. Any little bit helps, but man, those lion fish are nasty buggers. They eat everything!