These are a couple of photos of Lionfish that I took on my last dive trip to the Turks and Caicos. These fish are native to the Pacific and are causing havoc in the Caribbean. It’s believed that they got introduced into these waters in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew destroyed a private aquarium and released six of them into Miami’s Biscayne Bay. Here’s a link to the msnbc story
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