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Cypriot fishermen battle invasive lionfish and turn them into a tavern delicacy
Cypriot fishermen and chefs promote lionfish as a low-cost delicacy to reduce invasive populations threatening native fish and fishermen’s incomes, officials said.
- A campaign to serve lionfish as a tavern delicacy has encouraged fishermen like Photis Gaitanos to remove venomous spines and supply the invasive species to local tavernas.
- With the sea warming some 20% faster than the global average, warmer waters and the expanded Suez Canal have opened the floodgates to Indo-Pacific species, Europe's General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean says.
- The RELIONMED project, launched in 2017, recruits some 100 scuba divers to cull lionfish, while last year authorities paid about 4.73 euros per kilogram to remove toxic silver-cheeked toadfish.
- Roughly 150 professional fishermen in Cyprus face worsening incomes since two invasive species appeared, and some EU-funded programs exist while Costas Kadis urges turning invasives into food.
- Models project lionfish could swarm the entire Mediterranean by century's end, sightings have reached the Ionian Sea, and the #TasteTheOcean campaign began in 2021 with chefs promoting invasives as food.
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Unlike a few years ago when veteran Cypriot fisherman Fotis Gaitanos was fishing for the usual gilthead sea bream, red mullet or sea bass, he now hunts for invasive species that have made their way from the Red Sea to the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea and skillfully untangles the poisonous spines of the "lionfish" from his net.
·Belgrade, Serbia
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Photis Gaitanos skillfully dodges the venomous spines of the lionfish with his calloused fingers, freeing the beautiful, oddly shaped invasive species from the fishing net and tossing it into a rubber box filled with ice.
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