Lionfish!

This beautiful fish is bad news. Lionfish are an invasive species in the Caribbean Sea. They are native to the indo-pacific and have no predators here on the reefs. They eat other fish and their eggs. It's dorsal spines are venomous. It's beautiful stripes are a waning. Because of the warmer waters here, they are triggered to spawn multiples times a year and are rapidly growing in numbers. One theory of their existence in the Caribbean is that they escaped from a costal aquarium in Florida destroyed by Hurricane Andrew. Also, many stupid people buy lionfish for their home aquariums then release them into the sea when they get mad that the lionfish ate all their other fishes. 

So in an effort to control the poplation the Roatan Marine Park sole spear guns to the dive instructors and everyone is now on the hunt for lionfish!