Lionfish Festival Benefits Heights Foundation
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [NEWS-PRESS] STACEY HENSON - April 1, 2015
With teeth-gnashing intensity, one of Southwest Florida's most deadly menaces met its match Sunday in the name of charity.
Diver Charlie Coleman of Cape Coral crunched on invasive lionfish, joining about 150 people at the Lionfish Festival: Feast on the Beast to benefit the Heights Foundation, which operates the Heights Center in Fort Myers.
"The deeper I go, the more I see," Coleman said, clad in a sky blue T-shirt featuring the spiny white, red and brown fish on the back. As it warms up, he'll dive more often and do his part to cull the school. "I'll pick a large one and bring it up with me, but I'm ...
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