Caribbean's native predators unable to stop aggressive lionfish population growth

Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

"Ocean predator" conjures up images of sharks and barracudas, but the voracious red lionfish is out-eating them all in the Caribbean -- and Mother Nature appears unable to control its impact on local reef fish. That leaves human intervention as the most promising solution to the problem of this highly invasive species, said researchers.

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