Hello everyone!
I’m a student in the Graduate Program in Marine Biology at the College of Charleston, and I’m studying the diet of invasive lionfish in SC waters. Any help you all could provide - from letting me know about where you’re seeing them to giving me the stomachs of any you may catch (feel free to keep the meat - they have a white, flaky flesh similar to black sea bass - tasty!) - would be greatly appreciated!
We already know that lionfish pose a threat to local game fish species by competing for food, but I’m also trying to figure out if lionfish are actually eating juveniles of important game fish species, too. And many of these important game fishes are overfished as adults, so if we’re short on reproductive adults AND losing babies before they can become reproductive (either through direct consumption or via starvation due to competition), we’ll have a real crisis on our hands.
So let’s see if we can get rid of these buggers! Please feel free to email me (smdoty@g.cofc.edu)!
Thanks for any and all help! 
~Sarah