Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies

Research Projects 

Lionfish : Useful Resources

Portals
• Invasive Lionfish Web Portal
• Caribbean Invasive Alien Species Network (CIASNET)
• Global Invasive Species Database (GISD)
• Database of Islands Invasive Species Eradications

Websites
• The USGS Lionfish page 
• The REEF Lionfish website 
• NOAA Ocean Service Education: The Lionfish Invasion
• National Geographic Lionfish page
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Videos
• Lion Fish the Edible Menace
• A Little on Lionfish In Barbados
• News Update: Lion Fish Derby

Fact sheets
• Lionfish quick facts
• Portrait of an Invasion
• Lionfish fact sheet (NOAA)
• Lionfish sting first aid and treatment

Presentations
• Invasive Lionfish presentation (2012)
• Lionfish Barbados INFOPESCA WECAFC (2014)
• Lionfish presentation (World Fisheries Day 2017)
• Tracking the Red Lionfish Invasion in Barbados stakeholder presentation (2018)
• Barbados Coral Reef Symposium 2018 (lionfish presentation)

Response and management plans
• National Lionfish Response Plan Bahamas 
• Lionfish Management Plan Puerto Rico
• National Lionfish Response Plan St Eustatius 
• National Lionfish Response Plan US Virgin Islands
• NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Lionfish Response Plan (2015-2018)

Guidelines
• IUCN Guidelines for the Prevention of Biodiversity Loss Caused by Alien Invasive Species 

Data collection
• Barbados lionfish sightings form
• Lionfish dissection techniques and applications

Conference papers

2009
• Biology and Ecology of the Invasive Lionfishes, Pterois miles and Pterois volitans

2013
• Invasive Lionfish in the Marketplace: Challenges and Opportunities

2014
• Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Haplotype Diversity of the Invasive Lionfish (Pterois volitans) in Barbados

Journal articles
2011
• Predicted impact of the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans on the food web of a Caribbean coral reef
• Worst case scenario: potential long-term effects of invasive predatory lionfish (Pterois volitans) on Atlantic and Caribbean coral-reef communities
• A Case Study of Lionfish Sting-Induced Paralysis

2012 
• Progression of invasive lionfish in seagrass, mangrove and reef habitats
• Characterizing trophic ecology of generalist consumers: a case study of the invasive lionfish in The Bahamas

Books
2012
• Invasive Lionfish: A Guide to Control and Management

2013
• Effects of invasive Pacific red lionfish Pterois volitans versus a native predator on Bahamian coral-reef fish communities