These are a couple of photos of Lionfish that I took on my last dive trip to the Turks & Caicos. These fish are native to the Pacific and are causing havoc in the Caribbean. It's believed that they got introduced into these waters in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew destroyed a private aquarium and released six of them into Miami's Biscayne Bay. Here's a link to the msnbc story

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