In my last two posts we discovered that the world's worst invading alien might be the lionfish, a native of the west Pacific and Indian Oceans that is now spreading ...

In my last post I described how the lionfish, native to the Indian Ocean and west Pacific, now infest just about every reef and wreck in the west Atlantic, from ...

About 20 years ago, one of the world's most beautiful and otherworldly fish, the red lionfish, started showing up in south Florida and the Caribbean. Now, they're a plague. Millions ...

On August 3, 2012, the Executive Director of Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission signed an order allowing citizens and tourists to take an unlimited harvest of lionfish without a ...

The first report of lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico came two years ago. Compared to the first sighting over twenty years ago in the Atlantic Ocean, the lionfish's arrival ...

James Morris '09 PHD spends his time plotting defenses for invasions. No, he doesn't work for the Department for Homeland Security, and he's not in the military. Morris, who did ...

Four years ago, lobster fisherman Gary Nichols had never laid eyes on a lionfish, but today his traps are full of them. "You'll get two or three decent traps with ...

In less than a decade, lionfish have become widely established across the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean. Recent estimates indicate that lionfish have surpassed some native species with the highest estimates ...

The Scotia Group has partnered with the Centre for Marine Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Rainforest Seafoods, the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), and the ...

Echoing the alarm sounded in the early 2000s about increasing numbers of lionfish off the East Coast, NOAA scientists are warning that another species - the Asian tiger shrimp - ...