The News and Observer reports today that the North Carolina coast has been invaded by an exotic fish - the lionfish (Pterois volitans). Lionfish - a Pacific species sometimes kept in saltwater aquaria - are crowding out and preying upon local seafood species such as grouper and snapper. Lionfish are edible - once their venomous spines are removed, that is - so we can probably expect to see them on dinner plates along the North Carolina coast in future.
Here's a link to The News and Observer article:
'Alien lionfish swarm N.C. coast'
by Jay Price - April 22, 2009
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1495524.html
For more on lionfish, see the following NOAA video and web page:
'The Lionfish Invasion'
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/stories/lionfish/
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