TIL: Lionfish Jewelry Can Help Save the Ocean | Today I Learned

there are a ton of fish in the sea but
there is one fish in particular that we
are working very hard to take out and
that is the invasive lionfish lionfish
were introduced off the coast of South
Florida in the mid-1980s lionfish are
prolific breeders one lionfish and all
of her offspring can produce 8.1
quintillion eggs in just three months
they’re kind of like the Hoover vacuums
of the sea they gobble up anything they
can fit in their mouths up to half their
size and unfortunately that includes a
lot of the native fish species that are
ecologically and economically important
one of the really innovative ways people
are tackling the invasive lionfish
problem actually involves turning the
fins and spines of lionfish into jewelry
so now the landing value of the lionfish
is higher and fishermen are strange to
go after lionfish more and more and they
are the ultimate conversation starter
who knew that wearing a fish could help
save the ocean so you probably heard of
BASE jumping but do you really know what
Bayes stands for