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 ...

Isaac Jones and Paul DeCuir have never met, but they share something in common — a disdain for lionfish. The invasive species native to Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific region first showed up on ...

Naples spear fishermen will head deep into the Gulf of Mexico once again to take out as many invasive lionfish as they can catch. The Naples Spearfishing League's annual derby will be held Aug. 26.

Flynn first cooked them in Florida, when he was the guest chef at a lionfish spearfishing rodeo in Boynton Beach. John Perruccico, an avid spearfisherman and president of Southbend Equipment Co., a ...

From lionfish-zapping robots to high-tech traps, scientists are racing to find ways to control the voracious and invasive fish that threaten fragile marine ecosystems from the northern Gulf of Mexico ...

Lionfish are threats to not only fragile coral reef ecosystems, but the divers who keep them in check. They not only take advantage of unsuspecting fish populations, but carry poisonous spines that ...

Donations and grants help offset the costs. Divers enlist in battle against harmful creatures taking over vast ocean area: ...

Coral reefs and artificial reefs from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle to the waters off the First Coast in Northeast Florida have one thing in common — lionfish. The pervasive invasive species, ...

This week at GW Fins (808 Bienville St., 504-581-3467), diners can try something new while also promoting a more sustainable Gulf Coast marine environment. Lionfish, considered one of the most ...

Diving off Philippine Islands in the Pacific, I photographed what they called turkeyfish. In places, these were the only species of fish in abundance. Members of the Scorpaenidae family, these ...