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Do you think killing lionfish is ethical? Why or why not?

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Well I don't like killing things but lionfish are technically taking over the ocean since they are traveling everywhere and a hurricane caused six fish from an aquarium to accidentally get swept out into the Atlantic Ocean. Female lionfish produce thousands of eggs at a time, which has allowed their population to increase rapidly in the Atlantic. There’s no firm estimate of the number of lionfish in the Atlantic Ocean right now. However, it might be as many as 375 to 1,000 lionfish per acre of the ocean. These fish have predators such as sharks and scorpionfish in their natural habitat. However, they don’t have many natural predators in the Atlantic Ocean, where the typical predatory animals don’t seem to recognize lionfish as food, so it probably is ethical.

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in my opinion, killing anything is not ethical. this goes against any rights even though a lion fish is not human
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