Winner winner, lionfish dinner!

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — A record-breaking year for the 2022 Lionfish Challenge. 707 divers registered for the 2022 Lionfish Challenge this year and together they harvested more than 25,000 invasive lionfish from Florida waters during the summer-long event!

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The seventh annual Lionfish Challenge was a close competition until the very end. This year’s participants broke several record in their quest to claim the title of Lionfish King or Queen and Commercial Champion.

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This year’s tournament had a total of 707 participants, the most in the program’s history according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 196 divers conducted a total of 676 trips throughout the state during the 3-month tournament and brought in a whopping 25,299 lionfish. In the end, two participants prevailed.

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Here are the winners of the 2022 Lionfish Challenge:

Lionfish King (First place Recreational Division): Isaac Jones - 1,018 lionfish

Second place Recreational Division: Baye Beauford - 863 lionfish

Third place Recreational Division: Helen Rodney - 800 lionfish

Commercial Champion (First place Commercial Division): Paul DeCuir - 1,092 pounds of lionfish

Second place Commercial Division: Alex Fogg – 1,090 pounds of lionfish

Third place Commercial Division: Isidoro Bedoya – 1,008 pounds of lionfish

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Lionfish King (First place Recreational Division): Isaac Jones - 1,018 lionfish

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