Lionfish Airplane; Pensacola Florida, Gulf of Mexico 

@The Boston terrier house Um, that was a joke. Lighten up.

😂

They are killing the fucking gulf you idiot!!! Scientists have called the lion fish the worst invasive predators ever discovered!!

Don't worry the lionfish are just paid actors

Right 😂

@@Phoenix-One0922 you moron. They didn't get there from mother nature . People bought them for home aquariums and when they got tired of the work and expenses for their upkeep, they tossed them into the ocean. Mother nature had nothing to do with it.

@@banksschott3659 They came from a hurricane. he is not a moron.

That would certainly do it!

That is too funny. That would take care of the Lionfish population right quick. I'm still laughing.

Bryan O Bwahahahaha! Brilliant!😂

actually its edible in most part of asia, just get rid the spine and u good to consume it..

Its the exotic lionfish along the atlantic coast that have the magical aphrodisiac properties. The native lionfish in their part of the world are just duds.

You mean a shark?

Guess he don’t dive much to know how sharks react to dying fish.

@@Clay0124 thats a myth... sharks dont have feeding frenzies

@@lucaguida4286 oh okay lol

@@lucaguida4286 sharks are myths

+Jesse Shin Legendary! Godlike!

+Jesse Shin bruh he taking theme out like they just minions.

500 farm in one game xD

+Jesse Shin you mean double kill, triple kill , overkill, killtacular, killtrocity!

+Jesse Shin .. HEPTAKILL !! DECAKILL !!! CENTOKILL !! MEGAKILL !!!! hahahahahah !!!

Lol

true!

+Matt Froggatt I thought the exact same thing! So satisfying.

+Matt Froggatt It really is, lol, I just love watching them spear them!

lol ikr

the thing is, the lionfish are already destroying ecosystems, thats why people like him have to do stuff like this

8 years since this video and there are more lion fish than ever before. The biggest populations live well below depths where sport divers can spearfish - that’s where the breeders hang out. The ocean floor is covered with them

@@drdrew3that’s why we need subs or drones. Either one.

He said I dare you diver I dare you....

"What are you going to do, stab me?" -Quote from fish stabbed.

I know there's a lot of joking about it, but Lionfish aren't stupid, and are actually personable fish. That's why many people like them in the home aquaria. They're not scared of people and will gladly watch and follow you and beg for food.

from Hell's heart I stab at thee !!!

Sunny W iguanas just eat vegetation lol they're not native but they aren't destroying the habitat.

WesleyAPEX They eat very fast

Sunny W iI

They're just attracted to liberal minds............

their eating endangered plant species .

Eddie Wu k

How dare you refer to them as "invaders"! They have just as much right to be there as anyone else, and they enrich our society! Next you'll be calling for walls, and separating them from their mothers! Wait, are we talking about (illegal)immigrants or fish? Either way, how racist of you! Lol...

@@patrickmcleod111 you're an idiot.

Patrick McLeod what? Lmao they are eating exotic vegetation and they have nothing to keep them under control so unless you think having an invasive venomous fish with no predators are more important than keeping human beings safe and exotic vegetation be my guest. The idiot that kinda deserves to be scolded is the person that brought them to the location

He was killing them with no conscience and Sociopaths dont have a conscience

When a lionfish fins a child and and the child dies tell its parents that story.

thinking like you larry tischler we must kill all the kind of sharks..lions crocodile hyena wolves anything and whatever threats the human life.....and the first of all the most danger all over the world,,who is responsible for the most killing in the world the human being.and after that we will live in peace

You think there can be peace in the ocean or on land? The natural world exists by brute force. Killing and eating is THE #1 rule. Killing for protection is the #2 rule. Those that cannot comprehend this go extinct.

+dixie girl just like how the lionfish kill the reef with no conscience

He caught 200 fish that day, so he would have made 8 dollars. When you count in all the divers and all the fish they catch in total, thats a ton of money

After reading your post, your math teacher suddenly realized he was a failure.

Dick Fitzinya 😂😂😂😂best possible reaction lol

50 bucks....

Eric Kelly u mean 20

Ben, you all have some high densities off of Destin, maybe not this high, but its not uncommon to find chicken coops over there that have 50+

Just wait

You can sweep reefs clean though. Where I live they are almost gone from the reefs that are dived frequently.

how about a bigger boat...

v12tommy and they are very tasty 😋

yeah they taste like fish

they have slight flavor that takes the flavor of spices

@@MADDOGBESTRAPPER all fish taste different bro:P

For real if more people would eat them and realize how good they are problem would begin to go away. Everyone need to realize fish that eat other fish, taste 10x better than fish that eat plants and bugs etc.

541 now and climbing. 🤗

676now

@Georgios The Greek Righteous

XD

😂😂😂😂

Shane K some people kill 200+ in a day maybe a 25c bounty

Where would Florida get the money for the bounty?

Shane K these divers are already selling their catches to local restaurants for much better than $1 per fish.

Seems like serving them up at the local seafood restaurant is bounty enough. Just look how easy it was to collect them. $20.00 a plate...Cha ching! Lol

Mark Shaw Re allocate an existingTax to do so. Instead of paying for a Politicians retirement, have it go to funding the depopulation of Lion Fish. Boom. Theres the solution. Why does everything need to be set in stone?

Roger, thanks for the comment. Shoot me an email if you want to get together and shoot some lions on the panhandle. There is going to be a huge event in May in pensacola. Try and make it! Fogg.Alex@gmail.com

Alex Fogg Hi Alex. I killed about 70 Lion Fish in Aruba diving mainly the North Shore with Norman Arends who is from Aruba. He totally knows what he is doing and knows where to find the Lion Fish. Sad that there are so many around. I would love to have all the shooting choices that you had, but am sad that the Lion Fish are such a big problem. I have been trying to educate people in NJ and on my diving friends and people in general on Face Book. Most people do not know what an epidemic they have created and the damage they are causing because people can't see it or are not educated about the problem. You did a great job and service here to the environment. I sell insurance in NJ, but have an environmental science degree from college and feel like I am using it by eliminating as many Lion Fish as possible. We had the Hyatt in Aruba cook up our catch one day and boy were they good! I am not a fish eater either and liked the firm white meat. Friend me on FB if you can. Roger J. Muller, Jr. I have up some of the video Lion Fishing in Aruba. We did a 30 foot jump with scuba equipment off a cliff to get into one area that no one dives. I had my Go Pro on my head and my friend had one in the water. The videos need to be edited, but it was cool. I have a few others that show 125 feet down a 21 incher I got near a boulder. Wish I had more air, but it goes quickly at deep levels. In Aruba we found most of the Lion Fish between 120 and 80 feet. How deep was the plane you were shooting around? Far from the coast? The water looked really clear. In NJ we get about four feet on visibility so anymore more looks wonderful to me. I dove in Venice Beach, Florida in October for fossil shark teeth and got 4 foot vis and then nothing another day. You are so lucky you live in a warm weather diving area. Send me some information to roger@mullerinsurance.com. I am really into removing Lion Fish and have dove spearing them in Cuba, Aruba, Bonaire and Panama in the past year. Sarasota Florida tournament was cancelled the weekend I was there. Thanks for writing back!

Why would you want to fully distinct any animal from its own habitat ? I understand population control but every animal has its place. I wouldn't want to see any animal earsed from earth. They are all unique in their own ways.

Dustin, these fish do not belong here. They are native to the Pacific and Red Sea. They are causing an imbalance to the native ecosystem that they have invaded. I'm am not advocating mass extinction, just removal from where they are not supposed to be.

Alex Fogg thanks for breaking it down for me. Interesting to hear. You know more about this stuff than me haha.

I think the only way this battle is going to be won is to figure out how to sterilize them

very unlikely

Sand Skiff2 Considering how few 'get away' to breed those instincts. Not really.

Natural selection the ones who are scared will live reproduce and it goes on.

+Pericles Wanless You got that right. Which restaurant?

Longboards 519 clematis

+Pericles Wanless Hopefully more restaurants will follow that lead

Pericles Wanless How much do tou pay for them?

Its a win win situation .

Dawn, contact Allie with Zookeeper Lionfish Containment Units. I know a number of dive shops through the lionfishes invaded range carry these units. If you can't find them visit: www.zkstore.com/

AardvarkLord , indeed. Sadly. Sorry. Have to rib Californians any chance I get.

We have similar problems here, go out and kill as many purple sea urchins as you can, they are shredding our kelp forests.

there are quite a few invasive species in california oceans too...but Im going to take a wild guess that you weren't ACTUALLY volunteering to help.

@@nepadron diving off the coast of california sucks and is way more difficult than off the coast of florida

Depends on where you go. Where are you thinking?

Alex Fogg I guess anywhere in Florida that does it. If I go for a week and rent a car, I'm good with driving wherever I need to go to do it.

Pensacola is your best bet. Shoot me an email Fogg.Alex@gmail.com

+Alex Fogg Ok, sounds good.

did you ever go?

Adrian's Adventures This is in about 100ft of water. This area is COVERED in lionfish.

They bite a hook every once and a while but are found in offshore waters and not really inshore in your neck of the woods.

You are correct. They are very invasive. Get out to 100+ft and you will find plenty. They really dont have any predators so what do they need to fear?

Alex Fogg Understood... thanks for the reply. maybe one day we'll go to Florida and help you guys eradicate these tasty pests.

They taste very good. The problem is the poisonous spikes.

+sungwon hong It all depends which Zookeeper you are using. some hold ~20lbs and others hold close to 70lbs.

+sungwon hong ........ like 3000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm just thinking ALLOT

Over 9000.

I think its 50 and 100 when the tube is extended

www.zkstore.com/

Alex Fogg Links not working! Interested in one of those

Nick P email him directly he is currently redoing his website zookeeperlcu@gmail.com

Alex Fogg How much are they?

Nick P really depends on which model you get. Anywhere from $60-$200

+SEPI AUSTIN Believe it. It is what happens when people bring invasive species into the country and carelessly abandon them or let them escape.

+Larry Tischler I thought they were brought in from a hurricane?

+Spartan111792 Lionfish are native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans. They were dumped into the Atlantic by people that that should be jailed for years to come. They may have had some hurricane induced currents bring them to the Western and Northern Gulf of Mexico but this only hastened the spread, not caused it entirely.

Larry Tischler Yeah i live in south Florida, we have a lot of invasive species here! I knew it was bad but not that bad!

They are commonly sold in the salt water aquarium industry, they didn't migrate. They grow as large as a football and when little johnny down in Miami didn't know his 10 gallon aquarium would hold it they couldn't kill it so they had to let it go in the Atlantic. It only took a couple of those, or somebody that had 4-5 in a large SW tank that let them all go and explosion.

neriticdiving.com www.zkstore.com You will not find better gear

Why? Lionfish are an invasive species and they destroy everything.

+dixie girl leave it to a dingbat woman to say something like that!

shame on you who dont know that lion fish is killing almost all traces of life on coral barriers , who dont know that they dont have any natural predators. #next time grow your knowledge before you open your mouth or write something

he told you so???

Larry Longfellow Interesting. I didn't know it was illegal to sell them. I guess legalizing them could promote raising them or introducing more illegally, but you're right. Just like any species of fish we have put a price on, as long as we don't limit catch numbers, we could eventually wipe it out of these waters, haha.

RoboTekno +Larry Longfellow, there is nothing illegal about selling them. It is actually extremely easy to do so. Make a positive impact on the ecosystem, harvest some tasty fish, and make a few bucks while your at it. Whats not to like!!

Larry Longfellow Correct, But I have an SPL and posses commercial licenses in a couple of other states which allow me to sell in those states as well.

The net gets caught up in the reef. We tried!

They are powerful swimmers, I think they'd escape it when you disturb them. Spear works pretty well, just gotta find them

I don't think people are getting the reference funny though Hicks

Have to find Newt first

They're native to the Indo-Pacific rather than the Atlantic where they are wreaking havok. The problem is three fold. 1. They are voracious predators which the native fish have no experience with. In some areas lionfish have reduced native fish populations by 95% (Cote et al. 2013) 2. They can breed very rapidly. In some areas they may spawn every 4 days, all year round, for a total annual fecundity of 2 million+ eggs. 3. They have almost no predators due to their highly venomous spines.

Thanks. Interesting info, but I don't see how a few random fisherman with spear guns are going to stop an entire underwater species.

NemeanLion Some areas have proposed to have somewhat of an open season and even tournaments for spearfishing enthusiasts to aid in the . I heard that a while ago, so they may have already carried out a plan to do so. Heavy research has been poured into resolving this problem and it's phenomenal how many unique solutions they've come up with already. The fact that they have become a local delicacy in the Caribbean definitely adds desire to bag them, but since they are highly venomous, gotta make sure you have a cook who knows how to safely prepare it. Now if they could be reduced to controllable numbers or eliminated from ecosystems they invade, native species would be able to increase to sustainable population size. "A few random fisherman with spear guns" can become a population control effort with enough support to tackle this problem.

NemeanLion We can overfish anything if we put a cash incentive behind it. History has proven this. All we need to do is start a commercial scale fish stick production facility and market it to the US as an alternative to cod, pollock and haddock. Something tells me if marketed right it could be popularized in Japan as well, which would create a strong incentive to kill em all.

nefariosgliscor Do we know where the venom comes from? Fugu (blowfish) for example gain their toxins from their diet (as with many venemous critters). If lionfish are the same they could be detoxified. They'd also make decent organic fertilizer for plants I'd think.

andi watt Good point. Let's start with you first.

+Truthseeker1 Nah, we need more people like him that realize it.