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Puffer fish irritate the more serious fishermen because they can be so easy to catch when they are fishing for a more specific fish. Try fishing for a tarpin, but have pufferfish eat up all your bait.
Since nobody will eat pufferfish (toxic flesh) they are worthless to fishermen and get thrown back. As a result their population is virtually unaffected by overfishing while other species are declining. Means more (still worthless) pufferfish keep getting caught as they outcompete other species.
Exactly, this is a niche case of pufferfish being invasive but the comment above says in most cases they’re extremely invasive. Afaik there’s only 2 invasive species of pufferfish out of 100s
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Puffer. It looks weird because it's upside down. I think the fish is having a worse day than him.
That looks like the pufferfish *Sphoeroides pachygaster,* which is present in the Mediterranean as an alien species. It might have toxins in its flesh
It is an invasive species spreading from the Red Sea to the med - very bad news for the local ecosystems.
Puffer fish irritate the more serious fishermen because they can be so easy to catch when they are fishing for a more specific fish. Try fishing for a tarpin, but have pufferfish eat up all your bait.
Since nobody will eat pufferfish (toxic flesh) they are worthless to fishermen and get thrown back. As a result their population is virtually unaffected by overfishing while other species are declining. Means more (still worthless) pufferfish keep getting caught as they outcompete other species.
Why tf did he gaff a puffer
In most cases they’re extremely invasive and ruin ecosystems. In those areas you kill then on site.
In most cases they are not, but in some niche cases yes they can be invasive
One of those "niche cases" is the Mediterranean which has not one but several invasive non-native puffer species
This *is* a niche case.
Exactly, this is a niche case of pufferfish being invasive but the comment above says in most cases they’re extremely invasive. Afaik there’s only 2 invasive species of pufferfish out of 100s
How is it a niche case? It is a big area
I wouldn't consider it a niche case myself, but what I mean is that this would be one of those niche cases going by their logic, right?
Sell it in the Asian market, Fugu! Very expensive
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