Volume 75
An assessment of the impact of the lionfish invasion on shallow reef fish communities and fishing yields in Barbados?
Authors
Vallés, H; Walcott, J; Oxenford, H. Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2022
Pages: 9-10
Event: Proceedings of the Seventy-Five Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Fort Walton Beach
Country: USA
Abstract
The invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) quickly spread throughout the insular Caribbean over the last two decades, raising concerns on potential negative impacts on native (ecologically and economically important) reef fishes and fisher liveli-hoods across the region (Green et al. 2012). Due to its geographic location, Barbados was one of the last Caribbean islands to be invaded by lionfish, with the first report of lionfish presence taking place in late 2011 (Oxenford and Vallès 2014). The government-funded Barbados Lionfish Project was launched in early 2012, during the very early stages of the lionfish invasion, with the aim of assessing the expected ecological and economic impacts of lionfish (Oxenford and Vallès 2014).