Credit: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission |
TAMPA, Fla. — They're striped, spiky and potentially harmful to our native Florida marine life.
We're talking about the lionfish. The species' negative impacts are what led the Florida Fish and Wildlife to create the Lionfish Challenge — giving divers an incentive to harvest as many of the invasive fish as possible.
And, this year, divers participating in the tournament broke records by bringing in a whopping 25,299 lionfish.
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