@NavyTech Skull *Lionfish are not recognised as prey* by any creature in the Atlantic ocean. They are only recognised by predators in their native South Pacific and Indian oceans. There have been very limited attempts to teach sharks and eels to recognise lionfish as prey, but short of further introduction of invasive Pacific species (of sharks, cornetfish, grouper, eels, frogfish, scorpionfish, maybe snapper and trigger fish) all we're going to see is opportunistic feeding, not predatory behaviour.
Papa wheelie there is documented evidence of native fish eating Lionfish. Mostly the bigger fish. Grouper,Snapper etc. Not lots but they are starting. As they eat the food chain so will they become part of it.
@Iceflame Dude, if you live in Florida just go to any bay (Tampa worked for me) and stand near the shore line , go with a small fishing rod and a bag of frozen shrimp and you'll return home with 10+ puffers. Since you want only the TDT (hopefully for scientific purposes) you should only use the liver, now I don't have any idea of how to extract a concentrated amount of TDT from that, I asume you'll figure it out.
Notice there's no small reef fish swimming around just an area infested with lionfish. I'm happy they are considered good tasting so they won't go to waste
Great video! I plan on starting this summer, do you have any big tips or words of caution? I know to avoid the spines of the lionfish, but my fiancé and I worry more about sharks getting interested.
There is so much to do to help our oceans. I can't do much about it except try and pick up garbage and trash I see lazily tossed on the ground. But I think if there is two parties. One that cleans the world above and another taking on the ocean. We can truly make a change
Great video Patrick, good job - it is gonna take every diver working hard to control these rascals - here is my contribution to the effort in Cayman - thexvid.com/video/YLAeeYwfcl4/video.html - feeding snapper and thexvid.com/video/6_BdtOFi_mg/video.html - Feeding Moray
Certainly wouldn’t be holding the tube up close to the end where you stick the lionfish in like some of them. If the spines get you, it hurts like hell
Hi! I'm reaching out from a brand that makes invasive lionfish leather - we would love to collaborate on some footage. Please let me know if you're interested!
Honestly this is partly bullshit. The guys in that clip do a perfect job, coz the lionfish is an invasive in the atlantic ocean and the caribbean sea and the cleaned the sea, where the lionfish doesn't belong to. In their natural habitat, you'll find colourful coral reefs, a lot of other reef fishes and so on. Watch videos from the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, where the lionfish species usually live. So, your comment is only valid for an enviroment, where these fishes are an invasive species. If you go snorkeling or diving in the Red Sea or Indian Ocean, what we from Europe often do, watching a lionfish is very cool, they really nice fishes. At the end, human beings are the problem, coz they have brought that species to areas, where they don't belong and fit to, so human being have to eliminate this error again to keep our ecosystems in balance. Respect to the guys in the video for doin' that.
Venom is only dangerous if it gets into your bloodstream, so some people drink snake venom because it can’t kill them if they do ‘t have a major artery in their stomach
@Hung Tran Lionfish are on the top of the food chain and don't really have any natural predators, especially in the Atlantic, so they don't think they have any reason to get spooked
@Patrick Explores I know it’s cruel but you are doing the right thing I give you the right to take the Lionfish’s lives for eating and oomping the reef fish declining their numbers and destroying the reef. The method I’ll use to kill them is to grab them without getting stung and stick your fingers into the gills and twist doing that destroys the gills which kills them
Good work guys! Invasive species can be such a detriment to ecosystems when left unchecked. Keep it up!
These colonies really need to calm down
@Jelmer Dijken I think it was Agent Smith who said Humans are more similar to a virus than any other species on the planet.
Don't forget humans are the OG invasive species
Really like this video. No useless intros or talking, just straight action. Love it. Nice job altogether 👋
What area are you in?
Thanks!
We sell them to local restaurants- $8 a pound for whole lionfish. They are great tasting and it pays for the gas and beer
@NavyTech Skull
*Lionfish are not recognised as prey* by any creature in the Atlantic ocean. They are only recognised by predators in their native South Pacific and Indian oceans. There have been very limited attempts to teach sharks and eels to recognise lionfish as prey, but short of further introduction of invasive Pacific species (of sharks, cornetfish, grouper, eels, frogfish, scorpionfish, maybe snapper and trigger fish) all we're going to see is opportunistic feeding, not predatory behaviour.
Good. Each one eats up to thirty juvenile fish a day!
Papa wheelie there is documented evidence of native fish eating Lionfish. Mostly the bigger fish. Grouper,Snapper etc. Not lots but they are starting. As they eat the food chain so will they become part of it.
@Iceflame Dude, if you live in Florida just go to any bay (Tampa worked for me) and stand near the shore line , go with a small fishing rod and a bag of frozen shrimp and you'll return home with 10+ puffers. Since you want only the TDT (hopefully for scientific purposes) you should only use the liver, now I don't have any idea of how to extract a concentrated amount of TDT from that, I asume you'll figure it out.
@Iceflame Are you an assassin?
You guys are doing a great job, keep it up! 👍
Notice there's no small reef fish swimming around just an area infested with lionfish. I'm happy they are considered good tasting so they won't go to waste
@Doom Slayer and it's our turn to eat the lionfish
No small fish because the lionfish ate them all
So satisfying to watch. 🥳
Satisfying af
Agreed
Veronica M it really is though 😂
Elfthan Good to know. 🙄😆
I love knowing that people care for the native species and the balance of the environment.
The 24 people who disliked this video also people who'd love to see reefless seas...
I think it's for the annoying music/drums beat.
@Two Wheels why do you hate go pros? Its literally just a camera
@Gamer Meowm that's fair
Avalphilodas I’m a vegetarian myself but even I think such measures are necessary. Well maybe it’s the bot who disliked
Yah, I don’t think they know that they’re invasive and challenge other native predators 🤷🏼♂️
good on you, man. gotta keep these pests out of the reefs!
I LIKE THE WAY THEY ALL WORKED AS A TEAM, KEEPING THE REEFS SAFE. THANK YOU.
Great video! I plan on starting this summer, do you have any big tips or words of caution? I know to avoid the spines of the lionfish, but my fiancé and I worry more about sharks getting interested.
Bless you for keeping our reefs healthy!
I wish I had the equipment and expertise to go and do this. I hope you guys get them all!
I think the hardest part is filleting them. I have tried but failed miserably.
There is so much to do to help our oceans.
I can't do much about it except try and pick up garbage and trash I see lazily tossed on the ground.
But I think if there is two parties.
One that cleans the world above and another taking on the ocean.
We can truly make a change
That's a really good way of looking at it. Teamwork!
We gotta save the native fish and our reefs keep going guys!
Seriously, where do I sign up???? This would be so cool!
Nah look up dive shop and pay for it
pretty sure it is ReefCI in Belize
Are you using a red filter on your go pro? The footage looks great
I could watch this all day on loop
I plan on learning how to spearfish, and one of the first species I plan on going after whenever I get the chance is lionfish
How deep was this? at which levels do these fish prefer?
That’s a huge part of the problem cuz they can go pretty deep when they want to. They have a large range on the reefs and coastal sea shelves.
Notice you don’t see other fish species on the reef.
Taste nice apparently. Very sustainable way of eating, and removing an invasive species at the same time!
That looks so fun!!
There is something so creepy, yet so oddly satisfying seeing these fishes get stabbed and caught.
Cool vid what spears were you useing?
I WANT TO DO THAT
it’s good they r saving the ecosystem
@Moonlight spark true
It hurts me to see such a beautiful fish getting killed so much but all of that pain goes away when i see all of the reef restoration!
Imagine putting your hand in that bag lmao
That's pretty epic.
God, look at how many of those smug little bastards there were on that reef!
these are so satisfying to watch
I was thinking how did they fit there 🤣🤣
Great video Patrick, good job - it is gonna take every diver working hard to control these rascals - here is my contribution to the effort in Cayman - thexvid.com/video/YLAeeYwfcl4/video.html - feeding snapper and thexvid.com/video/6_BdtOFi_mg/video.html - Feeding Moray
*Any dead lionfish* is a good lionfish and acquired predation would be the holy grail but all we're seeing there is opportunistic feeding.
I could watch this all day
Did you have them cooked? They taste pretty damn good.
Awesome Job...Keep up the great work and very good eating...
Which Caribbean country was this in? That is a rather large amount of Lionfish! They should consider selling them here in the UK!
I would love to do this
Imagine if 100 people done this in a day
Lionfish sees his friend getting speared
Lionfish: idk
Awesome! I also like the hunting music LOL
Does anyone else want to go lion fish hunting after seeing this
I would feel bad having to kill anything, especially dozens of them...but if they are invasive then they need to be dealt with.
What company did you use for this trip?
When the lionfishes gets snatched, they are like at fast as an octopus releasing ink
1:46 Rad shot!
4:29
the ones that disliked are the ones that either know 0 about fishing or diving
Certainly wouldn’t be holding the tube up close to the end where you stick the lionfish in like some of them. If the spines get you, it hurts like hell
so scary, like this is the only fish left :((
Hi! I'm reaching out from a brand that makes invasive lionfish leather - we would love to collaborate on some footage. Please let me know if you're interested!
Sad their invasive there just so pretty
Nice in the aquarium but a terror in the wild
They're tasty though
Are they still alive when put in the container?
Yes
Excellent!
So satisfying to watch
Roasted lionfish on a stick with salt is delicious and sweet.
are these commercial charters? if so: where & how much does it cost?
@Patrick Explores Great, thanks for the info!
I actually did this as part of a service trip in Belize through International Volunteers Headquarters (IVHQ) - you can check it out on their website
You can see the damage they do to the place they are, cuz I’ve never seen a video in which there are lionfish and has color or other kind
Honestly this is partly bullshit. The guys in that clip do a perfect job, coz the lionfish is an invasive in the atlantic ocean and the caribbean sea and the cleaned the sea, where the lionfish doesn't belong to. In their natural habitat, you'll find colourful coral reefs, a lot of other reef fishes and so on. Watch videos from the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, where the lionfish species usually live. So, your comment is only valid for an enviroment, where these fishes are an invasive species. If you go snorkeling or diving in the Red Sea or Indian Ocean, what we from Europe often do, watching a lionfish is very cool, they really nice fishes. At the end, human beings are the problem, coz they have brought that species to areas, where they don't belong and fit to, so human being have to eliminate this error again to keep our ecosystems in balance. Respect to the guys in the video for doin' that.
Just their sheer numbers are unbelievable
I've heard they're fairly tasty
Great job, but the fish r still beautiful haha
I've heard that lionfish is delicious once it's cooked and prepared
Darn good job!
I find this so satisfying
Its kinda sad what happnening to them but the lion fish deserved it.
Thank you so much ..you all need to come to the bahamas next🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸
You guys pick up lion fish like you pick up litter with spears
nice job :)
Heard lionfish are delicious 😋 🐠
Taste like snapper, just avoid the spiny bits.
if i would live there i would get a huge tank and throw like 20 of them in there ^^
Wish you showed the eating, thats going to be a lot of food!
Gotta get a bunch of free-drivers together to catch these daily and sell it all to local restaurants. Might make for a good business
Love this vid.
Thank You!!!!
Seafood
Makan(Feast) Time👍🏽🤤
Way to clean house guys! 🤙
Lionfish would be a lot easier to kill or get killed [by other animals] if they weren’t poisonous.
Did not know you can eat them. Thats a huge bonus.
Dang! It like picking up trash . Nice job!
Maybe trophy hunters should do this instead
should make this a sport with a eating contest afterward.
theres something really satisfying about this crazy invasive species getting fished. I heard a female can lay upto 2 million eggs!!
Per year...
Why stop at 60 pound 😂
Please please keep doing this! These fish are HORRIBLE!!! I have never hated a fish so much in my life. Y’all keep up the good work!!!
aren't lionfish poisonous? why are they eating them?
Venom is only dangerous if it gets into your bloodstream, so some people drink snake venom because it can’t kill them if they do ‘t have a major artery in their stomach
Fore WARNE they’re venomous, plus their venom is in their spines, so as long as you don’t get poked by them you’re generally fine to eat them
That looks deep
Government: Execute Order 66
Good divers follow orders
Blast him
It will be done my lord.
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!
They should use little dredges like they do dredging for gold in the Bering Sea. Just vacuum them up directly to the surface.
@and Just to vacuum the fish, not the reef. facepalm!
Does the spear launch itself, or do they stab them like normal spears?
@Hung Tran Lionfish are on the top of the food chain and don't really have any natural predators, especially in the Atlantic, so they don't think they have any reason to get spooked
@savannah505 Thanks. Any thoughts on why those fishes don't swim away? Their friends were literally being skewered right next to them..
They have a rubber band on the end, look closely at how it's used. You may have to watch another video.
@Patrick Explores I know it’s cruel but you are doing the right thing I give you the right to take the Lionfish’s lives for eating and oomping the reef fish declining their numbers and destroying the reef. The method I’ll use to kill them is to grab them without getting stung and stick your fingers into the gills and twist doing that destroys the gills which kills them
Keren sekali tempatnya, salam kenal dari anglers Indonesia, silahkan kunjungi channel saya jika berkenan..
good job
POV: You’re also looking for some triggered PETA member in the comments going on about how spearfishing is evil
good job yall
you don't worry about the fish poking each other in the bag and contaminating the meat?
super invasive lion fish destroy reef ecosystem
Super invasive idiot humans who bought these fish from else where and left few of them in Florida.
Make sure to prepare them carefully, wouldn't want anyone to be sick or die.
Now that is a good job catching and invasive fish, NOW we need to do something with Asian Carp AND Rock Pythons
You must try lion fish soup or fry