{"id":34501,"date":"2013-04-17T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34501"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:49:47","slug":"lionfish-power-eating-through-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/lionfish-power-eating-through-reefs","title":{"rendered":"Lionfish Power-Eating Through Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34503\" title=\"lionfish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lionfish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lionfish.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lionfish-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/lionfish-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Scientists say they have few weapons to wield against the poison-spined lionfish, which is gobbling up reef fish in the Bahamas and other habitats.<\/p>\n<p>A gluttonous predator is power-eating its way through reefs from New York to Venezuela. It&#8217;s the lionfish.<\/p>\n<p>And although researchers are coming up with new ways to protect some reefs from the flamboyant maroon-striped fish, they have no hope of stopping its unparalleled invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Lad Akins has scuba dived in the vibrant reefs of the Bahamas for many years. But when he returned a couple years ago, he saw almost no fish larger than his hand.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Caption: Lionfish, like this one spotted in the Bahamas, are a non-native predatory fish that can decimate native fish populations. (MCT\/Landov)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gluttonous lionfish, gobbling up reef fish in the Bahamas and other habitats, has deeply concerned scientists who have no way of stopping the destructive invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[76,869,23,79],"class_list":["post-34501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-environment-2","tag-fish","tag-food","tag-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}