Category Archives: Environmental

Michelle Pugh’s (dive Experience) dive class dive class spotted a  juvenile Pacific lionfish on Sunday at 117 feet at Salt River West Wall and the instructor. Michelle Notified Dr. Coles, who retrieved the fish monday morning together with Glenn Marshino,  Sean Corsaut and Bob Jensen of Anchor Dive Center . Daily news reports on the [...]

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National Park Service  has contracted  Dive Experience in  arranging Lionfish removal dives  once a month to  Buck Island (2 dives) and the East End Marine Park (1 dive) . This is rare opportunity to dive an amazing area that is otherwise not open or accessible to recreational divers. What more, THESE DIVES ARE FREE OF CHARGE (that’s right $0.00)!  The [...]

A draft of the  LIONFISH RESPONSE MANAGEMENT PLAN for the US Virgin Islands in MS Word document format can be downloaded  by  clicking here (To open this document you will need Microsoft Word, or a compatible product such as OpenOffice.org Writer  installed on your computer. Clicking on the link will open the word document in a new [...]

Note the location where the lionfish is located. Look for some distinctive features about the location which you can memorize and decribe after you dive. If you have a lionfish marker in your BCD pocket, drop the marker close to where the lionfish is located. If you do not alredy have a few lionfish markers [...]

STX LIONFISH UPDATE! Written by Kari Evanko Monday, 16 March 2009 Fifth Lionfish Caught in U.S.V.I. Waters by Source staff Feb. 26, 2009 — A fifth Pacific lionfish was recovered in Virgin Islands waters, this one on the eastern end of St. Croix, less than a mile off Isaacs Bay just south of Point Udall, [...]