Big Green Moray Eel devouring a huge Lion Fish

Eel: "Honey, our human Doordashers are here with that lionfish we ordered. Happy anniversary, dear."

As others have said, since the lionfish have no natural enemies in these waters that they're invading (and spawning like crazy, devouring native species), the local predator species have to become accustomed to these fish as a prey fish. Eels, groupers, sharks other fish CAN be shown the lionfish as edible prey fish. This will also help to eradicate them from depths too deep for recreational divers. This invasive species was CAUSED by humans dumping their aquarium fish in the ocean, not realizing the damage they would do.

If you haven’t spent a lot of time in the Caribbean you can’t begin to appreciate just how big those green morays can get. I’ve been face to face with one that was six feet long and as big around as my thigh, with a head the size of a football. When they get that big they are an apex predator, and are therefore very calm and gentle with divers. They’re very fascinating and powerful.

Lionfish: Look at all my spines! I'm incredibly venomous! Eel: Oh no! Anyway- (eats lionfish)

I love the underwater forest/sea scape. Just so peaceful looking

The people that "disliked" this video don't understand what a threat this invasive fish is.

Thank you for tackling this invasive species problem.

The space Invaders have brought us food once again

I was free diving in Maui with a spear fishing group. We swam off shore about 200 yards, water depth was 20-30 feet. I was practicing laying on the bottom for as long as I could. I went up got a big breath of air and did a duck dive to go back down, about 15 feet down there was a coral formation on my right side that rose up from the sea floor, I was being watched.... intently! I nearly inked the water because a big green Moray came half way out of his hole to check me out, zero fear on his part. I could have easily been seriously injured. I'm thankful he was just curious and not in defence mode. I learned a new level of respect on that excursion.

Glad to see an invasive species being actively policed!

The Moray eel is like " Spines, so what I use them as toothpicks "

Great video. Its amazing seeing how many lion fish that you encounter in a dive, even though you are trying to kill as many as you can. Glad to see the eel made a meal of it

Divers have done more to impact this evasive species than sea life eating them. Keep up the good work. By turning. Lion fish into Taco's.. When I did my recent lion fish cull. I killed. Around 700 in 4 days.. I cleaned them and donated them to food bank for the homeless..

Moray Eel is the honey badger of the sea.

When it darts at your eye like a beam from the sky, it's a Moray...

Im so glad divers are actually teaching predatory fish to eat these.

When an eel has a maw with a pharyngeal jaw, that’s a moray, When it’s jaws open wide and there’s more jaws inside, that’s a moray When it sulks in a reef and has two sets of teeth, that’s a moray When an eel bites your thigh and you bleed out and die, oh that’s a moray!

Lion fish are so chilled out the little fishes see them as part of the reef. Pretty soon there’s no juvenile fishes to grow up.

That eel was ferocious. I saw an emerald green eel like this one only twice as big back in 1992 while diving off Isla Mujeres by Cancun.

Eel:”Thanks!(*urrrp*)