Save the Planet, Eat Lionfish
Lionfish Photos Courtesy of Carl Safina/Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina (http://video.pbs.org/program/saving-t...)
Nancy Easterbrook, managing partner of Divetech, says in recent years the beautiful Indo-Pacific lionfish, studded with toxin-tipped spines, has found its way to the Caribbean, and is not only rapidly pro-creating, but vigorously reducing the populations of native fish, insatiably gobbling up juveniles and hurting the reef habitat. It is an abundance that produces scarcity. So, efforts are being made to spear the lionfish, and serve them up at local restaurants, hoping that if demand is great enough, the population of lionfish will drop, and other native fish can once again prosper. Jennifer Skrinska, co-owner of The Greenhouse Cafe, is one of the cooks who serve the tasty lionfish, doing her part to save the native fish by cooking the invaders.
