lionfish

1. Lionfish populations have exploded in the past few years.
   狮子鱼的数量在过去几年里激增。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. The lionfish are largely taking over thanks to overfishing by us humans, which has seriously diminished native grouper and snapper that would otherwise play the same role.
   狮子鱼能够谋权篡位和我们人类的滥捕滥杀密不可分。人类的过度捕捞使得当地原本处于统治地位的石斑鱼和鲷鱼数量大大减少。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. The red lionfish sports maroon and white stripes to complement its venomous spines.
   红狮子鱼褐白相间的条纹真是为它的毒刺锦上添花。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。

noun

1. brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins