If you're not a seafood lover, you will be after eating venomous lionfish

The lionfish scares off its potential predators with its venomous spines. — AFP

If you can't beat your enemies, eat them. That's the strategy Cuba has adopted to respond to an invasion of lionfish, a poisonous predator that has strayed far from its home waters in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

A favourite in aquariums for its flamboyant spines and vibrant orange and red stripes, the lionfish is wreaking havoc on ecosystems in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, where it showed up about a decade ago.