You've heard of the "Bad News Bears," well these are the "Bad News Lions." I've heard it stated that these fish that have spread from Florida to the Bahamas and up the coast to RI can all be traced, based on their DNA, to 6 or 7 fish that escaped from an aquarium in Florida during a hurricane. They have few local predators, thy are equipped to deliver a nasty venomous sting if you get stuck by one of their armed spines, and they are voracious predators that will eat anything they can suck into their mouths.
Fortunately, they are great to eat.
I'm offering a free video to the first person to kill one locally and show a picture of it on S-B. If only dogfish would try and eat them and then they would both die.
Mike Laptew | Facebook should get you over to the FaceBook page