C.O.R.E. volunteers took some time to present some history of the lionfish in the Caribbean to a high school class at Central High School in St Croix.  We also were able to bring some de-spined lionfish for a dissection.  We would like to thank the teacher, Ms Nora Santana for giving us this opportunity to instruct the students.  We would also like to thank the students that participated. Jonathan Joseph, Kaylah Browne, Eryk Simon and Joshua Santiago.  It was a great experience for us at C.O.R.E. as well as the students. 

Thanks to C.O.R.E. members Michelle Griffith for assisting and Michael Funk for supplying the dissection tools.

We also took some time at the end of the class for one student who wanted to see how to filet a lionfish!

The volunteers of The Caribbean Oceanic Restoration & Education Foundation had a wonderful time with local students and adults at the annual Earth Day Fair. Visitors to the booth learned about the invasive lionfish and why it is so important to keep them out of our waters!

Located inside Secret Harbour Beach, Nazareth, United States - (340) 775-6285 - http://www.aadivers.com/
Contact your STT Dive Coordinator Rick - sttdive@corevi.org

On St. John Leslie Charpentier (STJ Dive Coordinator), John Westgard, Barb Crites, Jason Quetel (Chief of Field Ops), and Frank Cummings (STJ E&O Coordinator) all contributed to making this a successful and educational booth at the Earth Day Fair.

On St. Croix volunteers from CORE and CRABBS as well as local cleaners cleaned two segments, bottom of The Beast to CB and CB to Rust Op Twist. Total count was 62 bags of trash and 7 bags of cans between the 15 people who participated!