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by t6jvcereio 1383 days ago
Yeah, people are gonna start breeding lionfish and sneaking them into their competitions /s
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Mhhhh... probably not. Is "impossible" (for common people) to reproduce it in captivity and they are very expensive to keep and bread in aquariums. Pelagic larvae would not survive. No bounty would pay for their feeding and energy bills. This is why we can't breed lobsters in captivity.

But deliberate capture in nature and releasing in another ocean can be still a problem. And new groups lobbying against its total eradication would surely be created.

Killing invasive species for sport is in the origin of most invasions of alien species of fish in Europe. Probably the same in America also.