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we must let those beautiful big fish alive as they will destroy the Lion fish and all coral fish will be safe ?

Please spell it out. Why is it considered a bad idea to teach other fish to eat the lionfish? "Interfering" with nature? I submit the interference was the introduction of the lionfish to a non-native environment.

What a beautiful spear design

Ok but aren’t they poisonous?

That black and white fish was a grouper? How pretty

The idea of retraining the ecosystem to balance out the invasive species is so smart. It's like the species of monkeys that learned and handed down to dunk sweet potatoes in the ocean to wash and flavor their food. Get that epigenetic memory going n hopefully it'll turn into instinct.

If the sharks and other fishes learned that Lion fishes are edible, I think you can just kill the Lion fish then stuff it to a coral or something, the shark then may follow you but you should just leave it be until the shark finally learns to hunt by itself, altough it might still approach divers.

Learn about fish biology. All fish have sensory systems that tell them if their prey is dead or alive. When you think about animal behavior, stop using human sensory systems as your basis. Humans are terrible at knowing what is going on around them. Fish can sense salinity, temperature, light, sound, movement, and even the heartbeat of another fish. Or the lack thereof in this case. Also can taste/smell rather well. There are studies showing sharks smelling a drop of blood from over a mile away. Trigger fish is eating the lion fish because it is dead and therefore a free meal. The seemingly urgent actions of the triggerfish are because it knows there are other (bigger) predators lurking nearby. Just like a jackal stealing scraps from a lion kill. Opportunity for free calories. Dead fish don't last long when live fish are around. Why do you think fishing hooks were invented? The grouper probably got stung while trying to swallow the lion fish. Not hard to figure out the lion fish defenses still work for some time after death. Ask any of the fisherman accidentally stung while filleting a long dead lion fish.

“Oh good, my to-go order is ready!”

Love it!splendid picture, Oceans!

I believe they've been doing this with crocodiles in some areas

The Shark Bytes channel just did a video on this, people feeding the sharks were getting attacked and Florida has banned feeding sharks. Sadly the population of reef sharks are declining in the areas where lionfish are gaining so that wasnt a viable solution, according to the video. Divers feeding wildlife lionfish were also getting harrased and attached by Moray Eels too. The fishing of Lionfish by divers is the only option now,abd that too is a losing battle.

Its biting the prongs on your spear you muppet do you not realize that?

How about teaching moronics people NOT TO RELEASE INVASSIVE SPECIES

Hey, find your own spot to hide. You are giving me away!!!

Where did this place take action?

Noooo !! I can’t stand any one who kill lionfish ! You ARENT GOD !!!

I guess, but I duno how it would hunt a living lion fish with all its poison

Efforts to teach sharks to eat lionfish have largely "failed" because while some sharks can consume lionfish, their natural predatory behavior doesn't typically include targeting them, and attempts to train them often lead to issues like sharks becoming too accustomed to humans and exhibiting aggressive behavior due to the act of feeding them lionfish directly, making it an impractical and potentially dangerous solution to the lionfish invasion.

slay queeeennnnn!!!!!!!!!

Lionfish! The Donald Trump of the sea world, invasive and poisonous.

I was once attacked by a triggerfish. It gnawed into my flipper. 😅

May be a dumb question but wouldn't eating a lionfish absolutely shred the stomach of a shark for example? Seems dangerous.

I am usually opposed to feeding wildlife but if it teaches the triggerfish that lion fish are good to eat it will help the reef balance out naturally

I thought that the lionfish were poisonous? Don’t the sharks get just a mouthful of spines? Poisonous ones?

Seems sort of obvious that the Grouper which swallows prays whole, can't eat the spiny venomous Lionfish, while the triggerfish that feeds by biting off chunks with its teeth, can.

U all in the deep u do what u do get rid of them lionfish i wont tell

Im guessing its seeing you as another fish, and youre about to eat that lionfish, but "PSYCH!..I GOT HIM OFFAYEW, SUCKAH!"...and then its either like.."YUCK!"...OR.."Hey!, This is pretty good!"

Instead of feeding the lionfish off the spear why not just leave the dead or dying lionfish on the reef and fish and sharks can find them without associating them with humans?

How can anything survive eating these pincushions? Don't they get stuck in their digestive tract?

Dont lionfish have spikes or something? How other fish eat them?

Why these people hate lion fish?

EAT ONLY THE MOUTH ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

It is a good thing that you are doing and isn’t anything wrong teaching the other species to eat the invasive species! They would eventually learn the behavior by having to adopt to the overtaking of their territory by the invasive species, it would just take way linger than how you guys are doing it!! I bet the people who are against this practice would be the first ones screaming and throwing a fit when the lion fish has completely taken over, resulting in native species dying out or just leaving and would blame everyone but themselves! If the people that have a problem with it know of a better way then they should be out there doing it instead of sitting around on their phones all day throwing fits and only complaining about

The spines are a deterant

Does the venom have any affect on the sharks or fish?

I don't get why your killings helpless animals and feeding them to other animals. Can some explain so this has context and doesn't just seem unnecessarily cruel

I grew up in Torrance and now I’m in Michigan. We have bumper stickers that read “Great Lakes: No salt, No Sharks 😅

I'm aware of the lionfish issue, but only snorkel, and wonder: is it actually safe for indigenous fish like sharks, triggerfish, and grouper to eat lionfish? I have seen it happen, but always wonder if it is safe for these fish to do it? What about the spines?

Triggers being highly predatory will look to eat any bleeding, injured fish/prey. Just like a pit bull will go after the carcass of a porcupine probably.

How's it going? Are your teachings successful?

Yes, that's a stupid question.

Lion fish are the stay cats of the oceans.

Why not overfish the lionfish?

If people don’t like the fact that invasive species get fed back to the environment they wreck, then those same people are apart of the issue. Humans are so dumb it’s pathetic .

Spikes get stock in their stomach and the fish eating the lion fish will be un lived. I would not feed them spikes.

It all depends on their equipment. Trigger fish are adapted to eating hardy urchins so its not surprising that they dont mind the spines on a lion fish. Maybe other contenders might be nurse sharks and other crustacean hunters that can break down hard carapaces and ignore the spines. Maybe octopuses too if they're around

I thought lion fish were poisonous

do not feed wild animals. as simple as that

I think that in a real wild situation the lion fish would defend itself, so the other fish wouldn't mess with it. But when you spear any fish, it will atract others to the wounded one. What we discovered here is that Triggerfish can eat Lionfish when even the Garoup wouldn't.