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Testing traps to control lovely but destructive lionfish – Phys.org
The quest is on for a better way to kill beautiful but brutally destructive lionfish than shooting them one by one with spearguns.
The quest is on for a better way to kill beautiful but brutally destructive lionfish than shooting them one by one with spearguns.
The voracious invaders with other fish, lionfish like to hang out near anything sticking up from the bottom, and a study Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE found that those traps caught about 10 lionfish for every unwanted fish.
The study “provides much needed evidence on the effectiveness of a lionfish-specific trap,” said Christina Hunt, a University of Oxford doc…
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