The device – which was created by non-profit Robots in Service of the Environment – received over $29,000 in backing on Kickstarter, and is currently being tested by the team in Bermuda.
It’s designed to tackle ever-increasing numbers of the species, which is native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but has spread, perhaps as a result of being dumped by aquarium owners.
The fish reproduce extremely rapidly, spawning around 2 million eggs each year, and lack their own predators as a result of their venomous spines.
They are also indiscriminate predators, eating prey up to half the size of their own bodies. As a result the species is threatening fish stock, and damaging reefs.
Read more on Dezeen: https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/13/invasive-lionfish-humanely-stunned-caught-by-rse-guardian-robot/
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