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Invasive lionfish reach Brazil's largest coral reefs

Original: Invasive lionfish reach Brazil’s largest coral reefs. Local fishers fight back

Invasive lionfish have reached Brazil's largest coral reefs, extending the species' spread along the Atlantic coast. The predatory fish, native to the Indo-Pacific, threaten local reef biodiversity, and Brazilian fishers are responding by hunting them to limit the damage to marine ecosystems and coastal livelihoods, according to Mongabay's report on the invasion's new frontier.

Why now: Lionfish spreading to Brazil's major reefs is a new and alarming milestone in one of the ocean's most damaging marine invasions.

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• Invasive lionfish reach Brazil’s largest coral reefs. Local fishers fight back · news - Mongabay
• Invasive lionfish reach Brazil’s largest coral reefs. Local fishers fight back · news - Mongabay

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