Killing Lion Fish

[Rock Doctor]

Not sure where this should go...... Hunting, Fishing, or Out of Province.
Anyway, I've gotten into Hunting Lion Fish. We have a place in Mexico, where these things are classed as Invasive..
Basically, they want these things dead, as many as you can get, as fast as you can kill them. There is nothing "sporting" about it, there are no "ethics", just kill them. That was a little difficult, so I decided to try eating the ones I was killing. Turns out they are VERY good eating, similar to Walleye.
This clip was taken just shortly before I learned to filet the fish without ending up in the hospital, so I did not keep any of them, just killed them and gutted them so they would sink and did not end up floating around us while we were diving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQL5ofnbqyE

RD

[Fred1]

Are you a dentist?

[Rock Doctor]

Cleaning them can be a bit of a challenge, but so far I managed to it without a trip to the hospital

http://youtu.be/Q_kXIoi2Ep0

[Rock Doctor]

They are not all that big, unless you hold them out and make them look big, lol

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[epicZERO74]

Don't know much about lion fish, but cool video!

[Rock Doctor]

Are you a dentist?


No, but I slept at a Holliday Inn last night.

[monasheemountainman]

^ hahahaha nice one

[Rock Doctor]

This was a pretty good one. Once I figured out how to clean them, the challenge became how to safely collect them while diving. I don't have a clip of it, but basically I used a 5" tube with a removable cap. Drilled a few small holes in each end to allow air out on the dive, and water out when we return to the surface. I use the spear and the hook to get the fish into the tube, then dump them into the sink when I get home.

http://youtu.be/73_D-1smZHo

RD

[The Dawg]

This was a pretty good one. Once I figured out how to clean them, the challenge became how to safely collect them while diving. I don't have a clip of it, but basically I used a 5" tube with a removable cap. Drilled a few small holes in each end to allow air out on the dive, and water out when we return to the surface. I use the spear and the hook to get the fish into the tube, then dump them into the sink when I get home.

http://youtu.be/73_D-1smZHo

RD


Video is private

[Rock Doctor]

Video is private

Fixed, I think

RD

[Daybreak]

Enjoyed the videos. Something we don't see much of.

Kudos to you for taking all that trouble and effort to get them back to your kitchen and then fillet them without ending up in MGH. Only a diehard and true sportsman goes to those efforts for an invasive species. Glad they tasted good making it all worthwhile.

[ElectricDyck]

Nice! Looks like you got it down like scientist! Although with the clean up crew in the ocean I wouldn't feel bad leavin em float....I'm sure you'd be feeding something easier to clean..lol

[300H&H]

Fixed, I think

RD

Video played just fine.
When I was diving in Cuba the dive master said the same thing. They are invasive and must be killed. Yet here at the pet store we can pay $80 for one of them.

[Rock Doctor]

Now that they are established, there is really nothing recreational divers can do, except maybe limit their numbers around common dive sites. These fish live well below the dive limit of 130ft, so it's not like we can get rid of them now.
Im just glad they are good to eat��

RD

[300H&H]

They have been reported as far north as Rhode Island and New York.
That is the same latitude as Oregon.

[Amphibious]

Glad to see more people getting on to this. Lionfish are very detrimental to the reef environment in Atlantic waters. When I was working in Haiti in 2010 I spent most of my free time shooting buckets full of them for the locals, and teaching them how to clip off the toxic spines. They would routinely catch them in nets and traps, but always throw them overboard as "poisonous".

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[David Heitsman]

Where in Mexico are you diving RD?

[Rock Doctor]

Where in Mexico are you diving RD?

We have a place in Paamul, it's north of Porta and south of Playa

Here is a bit of a look, it was a busy long weekend when I shot this little clip, normally there is nobody there on the beach, or in the pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU-f9Tc7ahg

RD

[Rock Doctor]

Here is a Drones Eye View of Paamul. When we are there, our friends have a nice 22ft Zodiac Type boar with twin 175's tied right behind the red Sailboat. The Drone does not go over the Dive Shop, but you can see the dive boat up the beach. Like I mentioned, our place is right behind it.

https://vimeo.com/79729948

RD

[albravo2]

They are a problem in the BVI too, but I had no idea there were so many of them in Yucatan.

I've yet to see one in the BVI. Might be because I typically snorkel and don't see anything much deeper than 50'.

Nasty buggers.

[Getbent]

Wow there are $hit loads of them...good on yah, glad they taste good as a bonus.

[guntech]

They look spectacular in an aquarium...

[elch jager]

Not sure where this should go...... Hunting, Fishing, or Out of Province.
Anyway, I've gotten into Hunting Lion Fish. We have a place in Mexico, where these things are classed as Invasive..
Basically, they want these things dead, as many as you can get, as fast as you can kill them. There is nothing "sporting" about it, there are no "ethics", just kill them. That was a little difficult, so I decided to try eating the ones I was killing. Turns out they are VERY good eating, similar to Walleye.
This clip was taken just shortly before I learned to filet the fish without ending up in the hospital, so I did not keep any of them, just killed them and gutted them so they would sink and did not end up floating around us while we were diving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQL5ofnbqyE

RD


Whadda cold hearted cork sucker. His name was Cecil you *******....

[Rock Doctor]

Whadda cold hearted cork sucker. His name was Nimo you *******....

Fixed it for you ;-)

RD