{"id":9964,"date":"2012-05-07T01:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:19:20","slug":"lionfish-invasive-species-in-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/lionfish-invasive-species-in-the-gulf-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionfish: Invasive species in the Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans). Photo taken at Mote Marine Aquarium.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Red Lionfish. Photo taken at Mote Marine Aquarium<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Lionfish off Cayo Costa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Much is being done to both study and eradicate this invasive and potentially harmful species. Scientists from Florida Gulf Coast University and Mote Marine Laboratory are both involved in local research. Reef.org is also a great resource with it’s own Lionfish Resarch Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much is being done to both study and eradicate this invasive and potentially harmful species. Scientists from Florida Gulf Coast University and Mote Marine Laboratory are both involved in local research. Reef.org is also a great resource with it’s own Lionfish Resarch Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2192127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mote-Marine-Steve-127.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}