FWC pleads with fashion, commercial fishing and other industries to make use of iguanas for clothes, bait and other uses.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The 2023 Lionfish Challenge has ended, shattering previous competition records, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced Thursday. The eighth edition ...

A Florida diver set two records recently by spearing and removing a large lionfish from the Gulf of Mexico. The lionfish measured 18.7 inches and weighed 3.77 pounds, making it the longest and ...

The FWC Lionfish Challenge in Florida saw record-breaking participation and harvest numbers this year. Some 285 divers removed 31,773 invasive lionfish from fragile coral reef ecosystems in the Gulf ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - More than 21,500 lionfish were removed from state waters in just over five months through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's fifth-annual "Lionfish ...

It’s tough to say which are more disliked in Florida: invasive pythons or invasive lionfish. But based on sheer numbers, venomous lionfish appear to be besting eviction efforts. That became clear when ...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Drifting in the slight chop of the Atlantic Ocean a mile off Florida's eastern coast, small groups of divers armed with spears and a purpose tumbled deliberately backward off the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — They're striped, spiky and potentially harmful to our native Florida marine life. We're talking about the lionfish. The species' negative impacts are what led the Florida Fish and ...

Thousands of invasive lionfish have been captured as part of Florida's 2022 Lionfish Challenge. The three-month challenge took part from May to September and saw 25,299 lionfish caught, the highest ...

Florida's ban on importing invasive lionfish, the first of its kind in the nation, goes into effect on Friday as wildlife managers look for a way to control the spread of the barbed, red-and-white ...