Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...unknown benefits they could offer the world. A very recent example of how devastating the introduction of non-native sea creatures into a marine habitat can be is demonstrated by the disastrous escape of “lion-fish” into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida aquarium as a result of Hurricane Andrew. This is not a trivial matter of no consequence. Lion- fish have spread up the eastern seaboard of the USA, into the Gulf of Mexico, and out to the Islands of the Caribbean, wiping out species as they've ...