lionfish

They may sound funny , but lionfish are not joke .

可能听起来有趣，但狮子鱼不是笑话。

Red lionfish are native to the South Pacific , Indian Ocean and Red Sea .

红狮子鱼原产于南太平洋、印度洋和红海。

Lionfish populations have exploded in the past few years .

狮子鱼的数量在过去几年里激增。

But in the Atlantic , where lionfish are an invasive species , it 's a whole different story .

但在大西洋里，狮子鱼是入侵生物，情况就完全不同了。

Conservationists said they hoped the cookbook could help create a commercial market for lionfish that would speed their eradication .

环保主义者表示，他们希望菜谱可以为狮子鱼提供一个商业市场，从而加速它们的灭亡。

AZUZ : They may sound funny , but lionfish are not joke .

这听起来很有趣，但狮子鱼并不是一个笑话。

Harry , who was measuring out powdered spine of lionfish , ignored them .

哈利正在称出研成粉末的狮子鱼脊椎骨，没有理睬他们。

Lionfish babies and eggs are swept away by these intense flows , and the invasion continues .

小狮子鱼和鱼蛋被卷进强烈的海流，物种入侵便继续扩散。

Overall , hurricanes have increased lionfish migrations by 45 percent and strengthened their numbers by 15 percent .

总体而言，飓风导致发生迁移的狮子鱼猛增了45%，并且使它们的数量增长了15%。

But Akins says lionfish already is on the menu in some restaurants in the Caribbean .

但来自礁石环境教育基金会的拉德.埃金斯称，蓑鲉（狮子鱼）已经出现在加勒比海的一些餐馆菜单上了。

The lionfish is native to the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans . It came to the United States as a popular aquarium fish .

狮子鱼原产于印度洋和西太平洋，作为水族馆里一种颇受欢迎的鱼类被引入美国。

Lionfish have multiplied like crazy in recent years , ravaging indigenous ecosystems by voraciously gobbling up resources and producing many ugly babies .

近年来，狮子鱼疯狂地成倍增长，它们贪婪地吞噬资源，大量繁殖，破坏着当地的生态系统。

But in the past decade , lionfish released into the wild have invaded coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean .

但在过去10年里，放生野外的狮子鱼侵扰了加勒比海和大西洋的珊瑚礁。

The situation is so dire that landlubbers and seamen alike are implored to eat more lionfish .

面对如此可怕的情形，当地人和水手都被要求食用更多的狮子鱼。

Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life & eat them .

佛罗里达海洋保护者编写了一本简单的食谱，呼吁大家吃掉不断威胁近海域珊瑚礁生态平衡的入侵者狮子鱼。

Their arrival has caused quote extreme disruption to native fish communities , according to the International Coral Reef Initiative , which is studying what to do about the lionfish invasion .

据研究狮子鱼入侵对策的国际珊瑚礁学会狮子鱼的到来引起了对当地鱼类种群的严重破坏。

And he says people in the United States will be willing to pay for it , not only because a cooked lionfish tastes good , but also because it 's good for the reefs .

他认为美国人愿意花钱享用狮子鱼，不仅因为狮子鱼味道鲜美，而且也因为有利于保护群礁的生态环境。

So hopefully , this article has belayed some of the fears and corrected some of the myths of keeping lionfish in reef aquaria .

那么，希望本文能够消除大家对狮子鱼的恐惧和关于狮子鱼的一些恐怖误解。

Researcher Matthew Johnston likens these pathways to express lanes on a superhighway.Strong ocean currents normally form a barrier and keep the lionfish sequestered from the ocean at large .

研究员马修·约翰斯顿把这些路径比作高速公路上的车道。通常强劲的洋流会形成一个屏障，阻碍狮子鱼大量进入海洋；

Lionfish like this one in Papua New Guinea are native to the reefs and rocky crevices of the Indo-Pacific , although they 've found their way to warm ocean habitats worldwide .

奇特的海生物图片画廊。狮子鱼像这一条在巴布亚新几内亚是本土的暗礁群和岩石的裂缝在印度-太平洋，尽管它们有找到它们的方法到温暖海洋栖息地全世界范围。

A native of the Indian and Pacific Oceans , the red lionfish and one of its cousins have rapidly established a new domain from Cape Hatteras to the coast of Mexico .

红狮子鱼产自印度洋、太平洋，但它们和其某种远亲已迅速建立起对哈特拉斯角至墨西哥湾海域的统治。

The Floridian straits served as lionfish ground zero , but since 1992 , the invaders have been busy and are now found in worrying numbers throughout the Bahamas as well .

弗洛里达州海峡是它们的聚集地，但是自1992年以来，它们频繁入侵，数量多得令人堪忧，巴哈马群岛也出现了这样的情况。

The oceanic conveyors responsible for the lionfish exodus were hurricanes , which redirect sea currents as they rumble through the tropics and subtropics .

飓风是把大量狮子鱼转移到其他地方的海上传送带。洋流发着低沉的声音流过热带和亚热带时，飓风改变了它们的方向。

Is it a blobfish , dragonfish , lionfish or tigerfish ?

它是水滴鱼、海蛾鱼，狮子鱼还是虎鱼？

The lionfish gorge on small fish , mollusks and invertebrates , enough to fill out to as much as 480 grams and decimate local populations on the coral reefs they inhabit .

狮子鱼以小鱼、软体动物、无脊椎动物为食，这些食物足以让狮子鱼增重480克，也足以让狮子鱼对当地珊瑚礁上的生物造成严重威胁。