60 Pounds of Invasive Lionfish on One Dive
2019 ж. 14 Мау.
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In a single dive we speared 60 pounds of invasive lionfish in the Caribbean. We then ate the lionfish. They were tasty.
In a single dive we speared 60 pounds of invasive lionfish in the Caribbean. We then ate the lionfish. They were tasty.
Notice there's no small reef fish swimming around just an area infested with lionfish. I'm happy they are considered good tasting so they won't go to waste
No small fish because the lionfish ate them all
@@shahanshapro and it's our turn to eat the lionfish
Lion fish fillets are excellent. We speared a few last time down in the keys.
What does Lion Fish taste like? Ive had Red Snapper and Grouper, never had Lion Fish before tho.
@@nullnull7352 I have fished and eaten many of those. My brother told me they taste better than many other fish he ate before! During fishing, we should be careful with their poisonous spines! (you can easily see their position, on google images) 😉
We sell them to local restaurants- $8 a pound for whole lionfish. They are great tasting and it pays for the gas and beer
Nice. Any chance you also sell Tetrodotoxin (from pufferfish)? I’ve been looking all over but no one does...
@@Novitiate001 why lol
noah nouvel Don’t ask. I’ll have to get you too...I mean, uh, nothing...
Iceflame oh no
@@Novitiate001 haha 🤣
Good work guys! Invasive species can be such a detriment to ecosystems when left unchecked. Keep it up!
Yes they are.. that makes all the US money pouring in to Australian politics to protect US invasive species here so evil and fucked up. take ya feral horses and ya foxes and your dirty money and fuck off
@@redhaze8080 who pissed in your drink, he’s telling them that they’re doing a good job and you have to bring politics into this. Shut ya fucking mouth.
Don't forget humans are the OG invasive species
@@jelmerdijken1529 I think it was Agent Smith who said Humans are more similar to a virus than any other species on the planet.
@@Xo-Yanga Australia is better than USA so you STFU
Really like this video. No useless intros or talking, just straight action. Love it. Nice job altogether 👋
Thanks!
What area are you in?
Annoying unnecessary music!
The 24 people who disliked this video also people who'd love to see reefless seas...
Yah, I don’t think they know that they’re invasive and challenge other native predators 🤷🏼♂️
Avalphilodas I’m a vegetarian myself but even I think such measures are necessary. Well maybe it’s the bot who disliked
@Gamer Meowm that's fair
@@twowheels833 why do you hate go pros? Its literally just a camera
I think it's for the annoying music/drums beat.
Government: Execute Order 66
It will be done my lord.
Blast him
Good divers follow orders
good on you, man. gotta keep these pests out of the reefs!
So satisfying to watch. 🥳
Veronica M that’s not creepy at all
Elfthan Good to know. 🙄😆
Veronica M it really is though 😂
Agreed
Satisfying af
There is so much to do to help our oceans. I can't do much about it except try and pick up garbage and trash I see lazily tossed on the ground. But I think if there is two parties. One that cleans the world above and another taking on the ocean. We can truly make a change
That's a really good way of looking at it. Teamwork!
I love knowing that people care for the native species and the balance of the environment.
good job everyone 👏🏻 I’m a diver , and every single one of those things culled from our waters will make a big difference. I really wish we as a community of divers could get together and designate several days a year as a lionfish cull day. Make a day out of it. Bring awareness. Barbecue and have fun and get those things off of our reefs!
I LIKE THE WAY THEY ALL WORKED AS A TEAM, KEEPING THE REEFS SAFE. THANK YOU.
ｗａｓｔｅｄ
Bless you for keeping our reefs healthy!
You guys are doing a great job, keep it up! 👍
yes, next time dont forget to check mines or tnt attached to the rib
Lionfish sees his friend getting speared Lionfish: idk
Great job all around. The only problem is that search and destroy hunts like this one have to be conducted every day by hundreds of similarly equipped boats. I know that you took 60 lbs of these killers but the same reef that you cleaned will be repopulated by foraging LF within days. Keep up the good work and for those uninformed morons who objected to this video, kindly keep your mouth shut.
omg look at those ocean floor, so lifeless because of all these lionfish around
they're voracious and territorial. Even if they don't eat the other fish, they will simply kill it.
This is like the underwater version community park cleanup, love to see it
I could watch this all day on loop
1:46 Rad shot!
Seriously, where do I sign up???? This would be so cool!
pretty sure it is ReefCI in Belize
Nah look up dive shop and pay for it
Are you using a red filter on your go pro? The footage looks great
Sad their invasive there just so pretty
They're tasty though
Nice in the aquarium but a terror in the wild
Pretty good to kill
Great video! I plan on starting this summer, do you have any big tips or words of caution? I know to avoid the spines of the lionfish, but my fiancé and I worry more about sharks getting interested.
I wish I had the equipment and expertise to go and do this. I hope you guys get them all!
Buy a spear and go freediving.
Please please keep doing this! These fish are HORRIBLE!!! I have never hated a fish so much in my life. Y’all keep up the good work!!!
@ Doing me: You hated that fish? Are you a little child or only a little fool. You should rather hate the humans, that caused this problem. Where they belong to - coral reefs in the Red Sea, Pacific and the Indo-Pacific, they aren't a problem for the eco system. Where they are invasive, they are a problem and must be removed from that eco system... it's that simple, actually understandable even for people with lower intelligence!
super invasive lion fish destroy reef ecosystem
Super invasive idiot humans who bought these fish from else where and left few of them in Florida.
That's pretty epic.
As a vegan at present, I think this is one of the only fish that no mercy is to be shown to.
W comment
I could watch this all day
Notice you don’t see other fish species on the reef.
I plan on learning how to spearfish, and one of the first species I plan on going after whenever I get the chance is lionfish
Thank You!!!!
Awesome! I also like the hunting music LOL
When the lionfishes gets snatched, they are like at fast as an octopus releasing ink
Taste nice apparently. Very sustainable way of eating, and removing an invasive species at the same time!
We gotta save the native fish and our reefs keep going guys!
Cool vid what spears were you useing?
It hurts me to see such a beautiful fish getting killed so much but all of that pain goes away when i see all of the reef restoration!
Excellent!
these are so satisfying to watch
Don't stop
Invasive species
starleen Rogers I know
@@slider903 I thought you said something else . Sorry about that 👍👍
starleen Rogers no worries.
More must perish my friends
What company did you use for this trip?
Imagine just being a lion fish chilling with your buddies in a reef you conquered and suddenly a boat comes overhead and a bunch of divers with spears drop down hell divers style and start stabbing all your friends.😂 Keep up the good work guys
That looks so fun!!
That was the national mourning day for that lionfish community
are these commercial charters? if so: where & how much does it cost?
I actually did this as part of a service trip in Belize through International Volunteers Headquarters (IVHQ) - you can check it out on their website
@@prahill8 Great, thanks for the info!
I think the hardest part is filleting them. I have tried but failed miserably.
Fantastic work your doing ,thank-you, where is this place that you were catching this invasive lionfish,
Thank you so much ..you all need to come to the bahamas next🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸
Omg. I’m gonna go to Florida soon, any suggestions on restaurants that seek you cooked lion fish?!
Love this vid.
Did you have them cooked? They taste pretty damn good.
Timon the meerkat. "Whaaaaat's on the menu?"
This is like trying to remove mosquitoes by slapping them. It’s going to take biologic controls.
This looks fun as hell haha
How deep was this? at which levels do these fish prefer?
That’s a huge part of the problem cuz they can go pretty deep when they want to. They have a large range on the reefs and coastal sea shelves.
lmao these lion fishes are just getting picked up like trash
good job
Just their sheer numbers are unbelievable
Dang! It like picking up trash . Nice job!
Thank you for this
They should use little dredges like they do dredging for gold in the Bering Sea. Just vacuum them up directly to the surface.
that’d do more harm than good imo
@@andanotherthing12 Just to vacuum the fish, not the reef. facepalm!
@@jackfntwist dude....you know there’s other fish that live there right? they’ll be sucked up too, dumbass!
@@andanotherthing12 You're a total idiot.
@@andanotherthing12 I'm talking about the little hand held ones with a small nozzle, not the huge dredges, moron.
Seafood Makan(Feast) Time👍🏽🤤
0:47 WOW! That's really nice.
So satisfying to watch
I was thinking how did they fit there 🤣🤣
This looks like a fun job
Roasted lionfish on a stick with salt is delicious and sweet.
Can the scales be removed without damaging the skin of the fish?
wdym?
Love it!! Do this with iguanas in Florida too for some free invasive proteins. Lionfish and iguana tacos anyone 😂
Nice! Well done.
Only a dead Lionfish is a good Lionfish. Greet job, guys!
@ Van Poll: That is a big bullshit and a stupid generalizing statement. Are you a little child or only a little foolb? Where they belong to - coral reefs in the Red Sea, Pacific and the Indo-Pacific, they aren't a problem for the eco system. Where they are invasive, they are a problem and must be removed from that eco system... it's that simple!
Unless it’s where it’s supposed to be remember!
@@bovverFS You didn't need to be toxic and roast him though.
I find this so satisfying
Way to clean house guys! 🤙
Thank you for protecting the reefs :)
Where did you get the container for the fish?
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Darn good job!
How do they taste?
Can't we design an underwater drone with a single purpose of killing these invasive fish?
Where is this at?
I would love to do this
Get rid of those buggers!😁
What eats Lion Fish? and wouldn't going after the eggs be a better idea? learning how they nest their eggs going after those? that could control in the thousands.
Unfortunately they don't make nests = females simply dump 50,000 eggs into the surrounding water every 3-4 days, which the males release clouds of sperm on. The eggs & babies drift with the plankton until they grow large enough to hunt on the reef. That's why lionfish have such a massive advantage of native Caribbean fish which usually spawn once a year.
Imagine putting your hand in that bag lmao
Did not know you can eat them. Thats a huge bonus.
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!
Very sad,practically no other fish around due to these lions
You caught 27 kilograms of Invasive Lionfish. There, I fixed your strange adherence to an ancient measurement system abandoned by all other countries.
METRIC SCALE RULES!!!
nobody cares
You must be fun at parties.
what if a grouper transitioned to a lionfish would they be protected?
Awesome
Heard lionfish are delicious 😋 🐠
Taste like snapper, just avoid the spiny bits.
God makes a fish tasty. Gives it incredibly toxic spines.
not only is it helping the environment but is probably really good business too.
If an invasive species has no natural predator, *give them something to worry about*
introduce a invasive fish natural predators to a place we're that fish are not native to might cause a larger problem Take cat as an example
humans are enough, if we can cause irreversible damage to our living space then we can make lionfish an exotic species
Good job
Now that is a good job catching and invasive fish, NOW we need to do something with Asian Carp AND Rock Pythons
Water infested Lionfish! But you collected them like sea urchins 😂😂😂
nice job :)