At least in north America, domestic cats are far from the top of the food chain and have many predators. Which is why they don’t live outside human civilization. Lionfish have no predators in the areas they’re invasive, which is the problem. Though it looks like both sharks and grouper can be trained by humans to eat them so once that chain is established the lionfish might start declining.
Sure, but then it dies without having children, stopping the resource consumption. It might be delayed, but it’s still a halting force. I’m also confused as to what the issue is - do they have some way of bypassing being neutered?
if you want to remove them from the area entirely because they consume to many resources, why would you go to the trouble of performing surgery and re-releasing it to consume more resources instead of just killing it. the former solves the problem in the future, the latter solves the problem now
No but if you’re going to capture these it’s just a waste to neuter them. The problem is how many other fish have no defenses against them so in effect you’ve done nothing, the lionfish is going to continue killing for the rest of its life. The proper way is to just spearfish them and take them to a restaurant for them to cook for customers. You’ve then both “neutered” them and removed the destruction
It could be net positive by wasting mating attempts from other wild individuals, decreasing offspring amounts of the population.
iirc some places airdrop sterile mosquitoes to reduce mosquito populations.
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If your goal is to lower a population over time, neuter and release can be very effective. Neutered males will still try to mate but they will not succeed. The females they try to mate with might not mate with another male, so they miss the chance to create a new generation.
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But they neutered it…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
I think is a reference to feral cats.
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
At least in north America, domestic cats are far from the top of the food chain and have many predators. Which is why they don’t live outside human civilization. Lionfish have no predators in the areas they’re invasive, which is the problem. Though it looks like both sharks and grouper can be trained by humans to eat them so once that chain is established the lionfish might start declining.
jdr@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
How to Train Your Grouper
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
They’re better off eating them. :)
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 1 month ago
a neutered animal still consumes resources
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 month ago
Sure, but then it dies without having children, stopping the resource consumption. It might be delayed, but it’s still a halting force. I’m also confused as to what the issue is - do they have some way of bypassing being neutered?
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 1 month ago
if you want to remove them from the area entirely because they consume to many resources, why would you go to the trouble of performing surgery and re-releasing it to consume more resources instead of just killing it. the former solves the problem in the future, the latter solves the problem now
tyler@programming.dev 1 month ago
No but if you’re going to capture these it’s just a waste to neuter them. The problem is how many other fish have no defenses against them so in effect you’ve done nothing, the lionfish is going to continue killing for the rest of its life. The proper way is to just spearfish them and take them to a restaurant for them to cook for customers. You’ve then both “neutered” them and removed the destruction
Redjard@reddthat.com 1 month ago
It could be net positive by wasting mating attempts from other wild individuals, decreasing offspring amounts of the population.
iirc some places airdrop sterile mosquitoes to reduce mosquito populations.
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just one won’t impact anything substantial.
Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If your goal is to lower a population over time, neuter and release can be very effective. Neutered males will still try to mate but they will not succeed. The females they try to mate with might not mate with another male, so they miss the chance to create a new generation.