Partners’ collaboration to remove lionfish from a Marine Protected Area at Paralimni

On 24/11/2017, “Marine and Environmental Research (MER) Lab”, “ENALIA PHYSIS Environmental Research Centre” and the “Department of Fisheries and Marine Research” of Cyprus, implemented a coordinated lionfish removal expedition in the MPA of Paralimni. “RELIONMED’s” partners performed the removal in waters between 20 – 30 m in depth and caught 74 lionfish. This was the largest number of lionfish removed so far from a small area <1 hectare.