Old joke: How do lionfish mate?
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Lionfish interrupted
Very carefully.
The logistics seem difficult with all those spines… but I might have disturbed a tender moment between two poisonous, beautiful fish.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, jackson's bar, lionfish, ocean, photography, poison, scuba diving, toxic, wildlife
Toxic beauty…
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Lionfish
Lionfish at Minerva’s Ledge.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, lionfish, minerva's ledge, ocean, photography, scuba diving, wildlife
A man yesterday asked me why I care about the ocean…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Lionfish...
And I actually struggled briefly. I can list all the ecosystem services the ocean provides: carbon sink, climate regulation, regional weather control, vital food chains. I can talk about all the direct human needs that are satisfied by the ocean: the billions that live off fish for protein, the hundreds of millions whose jobs depend on the seas.
Those are all reasons why I care. But my passion is really driven by the wildness of the blue below, and how exhilarating and yet also peaceful it is to visit that world.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, lionfish, ocean, peace, photography, scuba diving, wildlife
I’m a lionfish, hear me roar
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Lionfish eyeing me suspiciously. But with his protection of poison spines, he’s not going anywhere.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, lionfish, ocean, photography, scuba diving, the wall, wildlife
Britney Spears ain’t got jack on this guy…
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Toxic
Toxic but beautiful lionfish.
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A part of me wants to go hunting…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
Lionfish, a common reef predator in the Pacific and Indian oceans, is a voracious and invasive species here along the Atlantic seaboard. Dive shops routinely organize lionfish hunts to protect stressed reef ecosystems. I still wouldn’t eat them — I will remain vegetarian for now — but this gets me closer to my food ethic of eating animal I’ve killed/harvested myself.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, invasive species, lionfish, ocean, photography, reef, scuba diving, south button, wildlife
Scared lionfish
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under india
I'm afraid of him, yet he runs away
A lionfish caught in the open makes for more protective coral at Lighthouse Reef.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, coral, divemaster training, havelock, india, lighthouse reef, lionfish, ocean, photography, scuba diving, wildlife
