This is a letter to request sponsorship of the lionfish eradication project in San Pedro.
Wahoo’s Lounge will be hosting another lionfish tournament mid-December and is once again looking for sponsorship of any kind.
Contact: Noele at noelebelize@gmail.com or reply on this post.
Overnight stays, dinners, gift certificates, boat cushions, wine/cases of beer, fuel donations are just an small example of last years prizes.
We will again be working with Eco-Mar and Coral Reef as well as the fisheries department and Hol Chan Marine Reserve.
Some creative offers already in include:
Rojo Lounge has offered a coupon to prepare a FANTASTIC DINNER out of a fisherman’s catch for his group as a prize.
We also have two taxidermy lionfish donated to use as prizes.
We will make sure you are mentioned as a sponsor for the event and included in all marketing materials
Something about the lionfish issue in case you are unaware of the problem.
Quote from Paul Greenberg:
A half-century ago, American aquarium enthusiasts began importing the Indonesian lionfish. Attracted by the zebra-striped fish's exotic appearance, they had no idea that a series of storms and accidents in the 1980s and '90s would release handfuls of these creatures out into the open ocean. Once free, the escapees bred like bunny rabbits (actually hundreds, if not thousands of times faster than bunny rabbits) and proceeded to eat all the colorful reef fish they could get their jaws around. Radiating out from Florida, they were joined by subsequent aquarium escapees, and soon, lionfish population growth achieved enough momentum for a full-scale invasion of the tropical Atlantic.
When native fish encounter lionfish for the first time, they suffer from something that biologists call "prey naïveté." They dart playfully around the lionfish's coral-like tendrils. They cozy up to its flanks and hide in its branching fins. Then the lionfish eats them. Many biologists have concluded that the only way to stop the venomous, invasive lionfish from eating everything is to find something that eats the lionfish. In addition, the only creature that has shown any interest in eating the venomous, invasive lionfish, thus far, is us.
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Noele McLain
Wahoo's Lounge