Beautiful Poisonous Fish

Beautiful Poisonous Fish

Fish populations beautiful but poisonous maroon color spreading in the Caribbean waters, even to shift the local species. Spiny fish called Lionfish aka lion fish are often stung by this fish penyelam.Padahal originates from the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans. They allegedly fled the Florida fish tank and spread to Cuba, to the Cayman Islands, the main purpose of the divers.

Lionfish existence is quite worrying marine ecology experts, since they quite destroy other native species. A lionsfh can menghasbiskan 20 head of small fish within 30 minutes. "There is no way to stop this invasion," said Mark Hixon, an expert in marine ecology at Oregon State University.

Invasion

Besides toxic, it also kills fish prey or enemies with long spines around the body. A similar case also occurred in Africa, the Nile Perch fish have destroyed more than 200 species of rare fish. According to the World Conservation Union, the case was entered in the 100 worst invasive species list in the world.

Lion fish poisonous far terkonsentradi in the Bahamas, where they also prey on all the kids fish. Scientists believe that this vicious fish was first brought to Atlantic in 1992 during Hurricane Andrew. This species does not aggressively attack humans, but once bitten it is very fatal poison. Fish over 18 inches is moving slowly and love in the depths of the sea. So the most potentially affected by the poison are the divers.