Submarine pilot Erika Bergman is building a lionfish tracking/detection computer vision program that will utilize machine learning to locate the animals. In order to train the model, she is seeking around 100 10-second video clips of lionfish from a variety of locations, times of day, viewing angle, etc. If you have clips in your video library, please get in contact with Erika via email.
The latest video on Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features footage of a lionfish (Pterois volitans) filmed by Stewart Whitehead in Thailand’s Sogod Bay.
Whole Foods markets, in their bid to offer sustainable seafood options, will sell lionfish at the seafood counters of all west coast locations within the next six months. The chain hopes to eventually expand the sale of lionfish to all 431 locations in the future. In their native habitat, lionfish serve an important role in the food chain. However, since being introduced to the Caribbean the population of the invasive fish has grown exponentially.
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Earth Touch’s Wild Oceans channel features footage of red lionfish (Pterois volitans) hunting and capturing prey fish in the shallow waters of a tidal lagoon in Mozambique.
Photographer Shadi Samara has produced this amazing artistic image of a lion fish (Pterois volitans). It was shot near Eilat in the Northern Red Sea with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and a Canon EF 100mm macro lens.
Robert Koslawsky posted this stunning image of a common lionfish (Pterois volitans) cruising through a school of prey glassfish on the Wetpixel Facebook group. The image was taken on the wreck of the Satil off Eilat in the Northern Red Sea.
The submersible Antipodes has just found significant concentrations of invasive lionfish (Pterois sp.) at depths of between 100 and 265 ft off Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The fish are very efficient predators and since 1985, when they were first sighted in Florida, have been out-competing native species for prey.