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This week aboard the sailing vessel Cat Ppalu will focus on data gathering and observational behavior in and around Eleuthra (weather permitting).  The trip will be led by REEF Director of Special Projects Lad Akins and will have a maximum of 12 participants.  During the week of diving, we'll tag and track lionfish as well as collect specimens for researchers in the Bahamas and in the US.  We'll also conduct new activity observations to determine when and how lionfish are most active.

This week aboard the sailing vessel Cat Ppalu will focus on data gathering and observational behavior in and around Eleuthra (weather permitting).  The trip will be led by REEF Director of Special Projects Lad Akins and will have a maximum of 12 participants.  During the week of diving, we'll tag and track lionfish as well as collect specimens for researchers in the Bahamas and in the US.  We'll also conduct new activity observations to determine when and how lionfish are most active.

REEF to Give Public Talk on Exotic Invasive Lionfish

WHAT:
REEF, the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, will host a free educational presentation and discussion about the recent invasion of Atlantic waters by Indo-Pacific lionfish. Though no confirmed sightings have been made in the Florida Keys, the fish have become established along the U.S. east coast, Bahamas and Bermuda and are moving rapidly throughout the Caribbean.