Lionfish are now devouring reef fish from North Carolina across the Caribbean. Bonaire is fighting back, training divers to hunt the predatory creature. Instructor Mariska De Waard guides me ...

Who says? One of most respected fish-watching organizations in the world, R.E.E.F. (Reef Environmental Education Foundation). Proof of Bonaire's fish diversity can be found on the R.E.E.F.'s Web ...

Lionfish, while spectacularly beautiful, are wreaking havoc on Caribbean reef habitats ... the fish is trapped inside the pipe by the funnel. When I first arrived on Bonaire, I was introduced ...

Who says? One of most respected fish-watching organizations in the world, REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation). Proof of Bonaire's fish diversity can be found on REEF's Web site (www ...

The income brought in by the free-spending divers drew the autonomous government of this Dutch colony to severely restrict fishing (and ban spear-fishing entirely) so there are still more reef fish ...

and fish. The surveys produced the most detailed information yet available for assessing the overall health of Bonaire’s reefs. The expedition was part of a series of events that kicked off the ...

It has since developed its own unique reef life, with about 65 species of hard corals and some 500 to 700 species of fish. Many of them are thriving along much of the 226 miles of Bonaire ...

Fifty feet down in the turquoise waters off Bonaire ... most of the baby fish live and where they grow into adults - giving some hope that hunting efforts will sustain the reef.

KRALENDIJK, Bonaire — Bonaire is not a pretty island, not in the way that people typically think of islands in the Caribbean. There is little lush vegetation, primarily scrawny divi divi trees ...

Scuba diver Susan Sammon watches a fish in Bonaire's coral reef. Bonaire is a small island in the Caribbean whose surrounding waters contain more species of fish than any other in the area.