fortunately lionfish is an invasive
species that actually tastes good on a
weekly basis I’m getting calls from a
number of places throughout the country
really asking when the next time is
we’re going out to go on lionfish
because they need fish for an event or
just to put on their menu my motive for
going out there and hunting these fish
is not only to provide some relief to
the reefs but also put the money in my
pocket right now
divers are really the only way that you
can get a lot of lionfish
I’d say that that particular dive at 120
feets think we had about 17 18 minutes
of bottom time in that timeframe you
know I was able to kill around 140
hundred 50 lionfish I went down and
basically selected out the the largest
ones of the herd and then continued to
circle around the structure and
progressively the shooting as they get
smaller and smaller really you can go
out on a good day get three pointer
pounds of fish and make a few thousand
dollars it’s three awesome process in
some cases the wholesaler is actually a
restaurant and and that’s where we’re
gonna bring the fish today
right now we’re at pot roast and Pinot
which is a restaurant but they also
possess a wholesale license which allows
them to purchase lionfish from properly
licensed divers those who possess the
salt waters product license it’s only a
$50 license here in Florida makes it
very easy for people to harvest lionfish
and sell to their local restaurants
we’re actually gonna be frying whole
lionfish we’re also going to be doing
some lion fish fillets on Louise’s
Louisiana style jambalaya we use such a
high ratio of the fish we can use the
backbones after we filleted it we use
the entire fish we take everything
except the meat right under the head we
figured out that we can get this
amazingly high percentage of yield out
of a three inch a five inch a 10 inch a
12 inch fish doesn’t really matter so
we’re paying the divers to go down and
clear the reef don’t leave any lionfish
a lot kill them all
bring everything back and we’ll pay for
light light key that has nothing on it
like a result rather very good in the
case of lionfish it’s a very white flesh
very good to eat and a lot of people
like it
if you’re not a seafood lover you’ll
probably like seafood after having
lionfish
species that actually tastes good on a
weekly basis I’m getting calls from a
number of places throughout the country
really asking when the next time is
we’re going out to go on lionfish
because they need fish for an event or
just to put on their menu my motive for
going out there and hunting these fish
is not only to provide some relief to
the reefs but also put the money in my
pocket right now
divers are really the only way that you
can get a lot of lionfish
I’d say that that particular dive at 120
feets think we had about 17 18 minutes
of bottom time in that timeframe you
know I was able to kill around 140
hundred 50 lionfish I went down and
basically selected out the the largest
ones of the herd and then continued to
circle around the structure and
progressively the shooting as they get
smaller and smaller really you can go
out on a good day get three pointer
pounds of fish and make a few thousand
dollars it’s three awesome process in
some cases the wholesaler is actually a
restaurant and and that’s where we’re
gonna bring the fish today
right now we’re at pot roast and Pinot
which is a restaurant but they also
possess a wholesale license which allows
them to purchase lionfish from properly
licensed divers those who possess the
salt waters product license it’s only a
$50 license here in Florida makes it
very easy for people to harvest lionfish
and sell to their local restaurants
we’re actually gonna be frying whole
lionfish we’re also going to be doing
some lion fish fillets on Louise’s
Louisiana style jambalaya we use such a
high ratio of the fish we can use the
backbones after we filleted it we use
the entire fish we take everything
except the meat right under the head we
figured out that we can get this
amazingly high percentage of yield out
of a three inch a five inch a 10 inch a
12 inch fish doesn’t really matter so
we’re paying the divers to go down and
clear the reef don’t leave any lionfish
a lot kill them all
bring everything back and we’ll pay for
light light key that has nothing on it
like a result rather very good in the
case of lionfish it’s a very white flesh
very good to eat and a lot of people
like it
if you’re not a seafood lover you’ll
probably like seafood after having
lionfish
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