Lionfish Hunting near Nassau

Last weekend my son, AJ, & I went to the Bahamas with Atlanta Scuba to go on a lionfish hunt.  If you have been following my newly created blog, you have already found out that Lionfish are beautiful and dangerous, but are also not native to the Caribbean & Atlantic reef system, and are a problem for the ecosystem.  Because of this potential problem, The Bahamas has made it legal to spear these fish, so off we went.

We went out with the Stuart Cove dive operation for 10 dives over the long weekend, and had a great time hunting for lionfish on several of those dives.  We speared and brought home mopre than 110 fish, and also fed at least 3 to eels and sharks.

photo courtesy of FIn Photo - Stuart Cove