Fishermen in Cyprus are now targeting invasive lionfish, which have spread from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.

Cyprus fishermen turn venomous species into tavern delicacy - The invasive lionfish have spread. Some are trying to eat the ...

ON ANY GIVEN weekend this summer, there was a lionfish derby underway somewhere in Florida. As the population of this invasive species has exploded in recent years, so too has interest in targeting ...

Lionfish were never meant to exist in Mexico’s waters. Introduced through the aquarium trade, they spread rapidly through the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic. As highly efficient ambush ...

A version of this story ran in the December 2012 issue. The lionfish is notorious for its outsized appetite. Elaborate pectoral and dorsal fins form a fan around the fish’s head like a mane.

DAVIE (CBSMiami) – Hurricane season is here and that means storms and hurricanes that form this season may not only affect land negatively but also sea life. Hurricanes such as Andrew, Wilma and ...

Scuba divers at the 2023 Florida Keys Lionfish Derby & Festival caught 1,898 lionfish, breaking the previous records for Florida Keys derbies by more than 500. The derby, held in Islamorada by the ...

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Frying, searing or grilling is the best way to combat one invasive species that has gone from saltwater aquariums to establish colonies in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico from ...

A team of scientists from around the country recently spent two days off the coast of South Florida to investigate the explosion of lionfish. What they found was shocking. Why? Because there’s a war ...

The lionfish, prized denizen of salt-water aquariums everywhere, is native to the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific. Sometime in the 1990s, however, a few of them were introduced into the Caribbean, ...