{"id":4476,"date":"2014-05-06T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2019-12-05T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:31:19","slug":"the-bahamas-response-to-the-lionfish-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/06\/the-bahamas-response-to-the-lionfish-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bahamas\u2019 Response to the Lionfish Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bahamas-Response_Lionfish-Invasion-FINAL-Submitted.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bahamas-Response_Lionfish-Invasion-FINAL-Submitted-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bahamas Response_Lionfish Invasion FINAL Submitted\" class=\"wp-image-4477\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bahamas and the rest of the Wider-Caribbean have been faced with the challenge of combating the Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans). The lionfish has become a major cause for concern for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 .Threat to human health;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;2. Ability to out-compete native species due to their ambush style of predation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;3. Preys on a wide variety of species including several that are commercially important; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;4. Few known predators in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, the Department of Marine Resources in collaboration with The College of The Bahamas Marine and Environmental Studies Institute (COB-MESI) initiated a long-term National Lionfish Response Plan (NLRP). The NLRP was formalized in response to the growing threat posed by the invasion of lionfish in the waters of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Bahamas-Response_Lionfish-Invasion-FINAL-Submitted.pdf\">Bahamas Response Lionfish Invasion<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas and the rest of the Wider-Caribbean have been faced with the challenge of combating the Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans). The lionfish has become a major cause for concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13180,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeaninvasives.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}