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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

No but if you’re going to capture these it’s just a waste to neuter them. The problem is how many other fish have no defenses against them so in effect you’ve done nothing, the lionfish is going to continue killing for the rest of its life. The proper way is to just spearfish them and take them to a restaurant for them to cook for customers. You’ve then both “neutered” them and removed the destruction

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Well, the reason some people don't kill them is because they consider it unethical to purposefully stop a life, but besides the 5-15 year offset for lifespan, it'll still be effective in stopping the problem. The issue with invasive species is that they breed quickly and outcompete the native species due to that factor, but that wouldn't happen if they prevented the invasive species from breeding. Killing them all or neutering them all barely makes a difference; given a few years, they both result in none remaining.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    But you can kill hundreds for the price it costs to neuter a few.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Sure, and plenty of people do, but the people who don't want to kill them can neuter them - there's no drawback to gain their help when the alternative is that they simply wouldn't help. So I'm still confused about why this post is implying that a person who neutered one is somehow making a big mistake.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Incorrect. Neutering them will still result in massive loss of life or extinction of species on the reef. Anyone who cares about animals and the reef will kill them, not neuter and rerelease.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago*

    Sure, and a lion being alive results in a "massive loss of life" as well, so long as you consider a single creature's influence to be "massive," but that doesn't mean we kill them. People don't want to kill things because they don't want to do it themselves, not because they specifically want to limit total deaths. Not saying it's better, but it's still an option, and it's still better to let the people who don't want to kill them neuter them instead, rather than not helping at all.

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