Two women are working to save the coral reef from the invasive lionfish, using it as a sustainable teaching tool and cooking ...

By Mongabay.com Without a natural predator, invasive lionfish, which damage coral reefs, have become widespread throughout ...

In the span of a few years, lionfish spread from the coast of the US to the Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean. The invasive species is devastating ecosystems, eating everything in its path.

but nobody’s eating them,” she said. Before long, the lionfish population exploded, terrorizing smaller creatures from the Carolinas to Curacao. Now, the fearsome fish — only about a foot ...

She also opened a tasting room serving lionfish tacos and fried lionfish and chips. Their tagline? "We eat them to beat them." Smeulders is also a big proponent of cooking lionfish, which she ...