Climate change boosts invasive species in Mediterranean
Marine biologists are tracking and controlling the spread of invasive species such as the lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea. Factors like climate change and human activity are helping such species to thrive, reshaping food chains and threatening fisheries.
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AI GeneratedLionfish have become an invasive species in the Mediterranean, particularly in the east due to migration through the Suez Canal. While their presence threatens local biodiversity and the fishing economy, they are actually a safe and delicious food source, tasting similar to grouper, provided they are prepared by professionals to avoid their venomous spines.
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It has been a few decades where we have seen observations of lionfish in the Mediterranean.
In the eastern Mediterranean it's especially prevalent because of where we are through the Suez Canal.
A lot of their population aggregates here and then migrates further west.
That affects the local biodiversity as well as the economy
because people are not interested in some of them.
Some of them cannot be consumed.
So fishermen unfortunately suffer.
I believe lionfish is more like a buttery taste.
It's very similar to grouper.
Because the flesh is thicker, it will stay juicy after cooking.
People were afraid because they listened that it's venomous.
It's completely safe after it's been killed by professionals because the venom is not in the flesh.