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	Invasive Lionfish

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7-24-2008 7:27 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/637042e3-f4db-43f6-a116-4939651fbc82/5024FD61-6BF0-47F8-9835-A3BAF029089B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010" href="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010" style="font-size: 11px;">www.underwatertimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010"><DIV id="article_headline" q7OEu="0" roeB2="0">Study: Caribbean Lionfish Decimating Tropical Fish Populations, Threatens <A id="KonaLink0" href="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010#" ><FONT color="#0000ff"><SPAN>Coral </SPAN><SPAN>Reefs</SPAN></FONT></A>; 'Voracious Predator' </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010"><P q7OEu="1" roeB2="0"><SPAN q7OEu="0" roeB2="0">Corvalis, Oregon </SPAN>-- The invasion of predatory lionfish in the Caribbean region poses yet another major threat there to coral reef ecosystems – a new study has found that within a short period after the entry of lionfish into an area, the survival of other reef <A id="KonaLink1" href="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010#" ><FONT color="#0000ff"><SPAN>fishes</SPAN></FONT></A> is slashed by about 80 percent.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.underwatertimes.com/img/BC02E812-B874-476E-A0D5-F2BC4966C634" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010"><P q7OEu="0" roeB2="0">Aside from the rapid and immediate mortality of marine life, the loss of herbivorous fish also sets the stage for seaweeds to potentially overwhelm the coral reefs and disrupt the delicate ecological balance in which they exist, according to scientists from Oregon State University.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=12596347010">Following on the heels of overfishing, sediment depositions, nitrate pollution 
in some areas, coral bleaching caused by <A class=kLink 
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and increasing ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions, the lionfish invasion 
is a serious concern, said Mark Hixon, an OSU professor of zoology and expert on 
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