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Anna DeLoach just wrote in with news that CBC will be airing a segment tonight on lionfish in the Bahamas. Efforts to create a lionfish fishery in the Bahamas are underway in an attempt to control the massive potential devastation that an introduced predator can have on fragile ecosystems.

“We cannot offer a natural predator for lionfish,” he says, “which is a real concern. It also increases the importance that we become a predator of lionfish and that we provide that mortality to keep their population in check.”

Morris says that the only long-term solution to the lionfish problem may be the creation of a formal fishery, making it possible that one day this colorful predator may be coming to a supermarket near you.