Impacts, awareness and management of lionfish envenomation in Turkey

Year 2022, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 84 - 90, 30.06.2022

Raziye Tanrıverdi Mehmet Gökoğlu

https://doi.org/10.51756/marlife.1103648

Abstract

The study was carried out in the Mediterranean region of Turkey between 2018 and 2021. It was aimed to reveal lionfish awareness studies and lionfish venoming cases in Turkey in this study. The awareness studies were determined by institutional studies. Personal interviews, first aid agency notifications and literature were investigated to find lionfish venoming cases. Four awareness studies and seven lionfish venoming cases were detected. Pain, swelling, and redness were often the first symptoms in the venoming cases. The first application was immersion in hot water in three of the seven cases. No deaths were recorded in the cases. In Turkey, the awareness studies should continue with the derbies or tournaments and government-supported removal efforts must be made to reduce the population and stocks of invasive lionfish.

Keywords

Removal Efforts, Invasive Species, Turkey, Mediterranean Sea.

Türkiye kıyılarında aslan balığı zehirlenmesinin etkileri, farkındalığı ve yönetimi

Abstract

Çalışma 2018 ve 2021 yılları arasında Türkiye'nin Akdeniz bölgesinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye'de aslan balığı farkındalık çalışmaları ve aslan balığı zehirleme vakalarının ortaya konulması amaçlanmıştır. Farkındalık çalışmaları kurumsal çalışmalarla belirlenmiştir. Aslan balığı zehirleme vakalarını tespit etmek için kişisel görüşmeler, ilk yardım kuruluşu bildirimleri ve literatür araştırılmıştır. Dört farkındalık çalışması ve yedi aslan balığı zehirleme vakası tespit edilmiştir. Zehirlenme vakalarında ilk septomlar sıklıkla ağrı, şişlik ve kızarıklık olmuştur. Yedi vakadan üçünde ilk uygulama sıcak suya daldırma olmuştur. Vakalarda ölüm kaydedilmemiştir. Türkiye'de yarışma veya turnuvalar ile farkındalık çalışmalarına devam etmeli ve istilacı aslan balığı popülasyonunu ve stoklarını azaltmak için devlet destekli uzaklaştırma çalışmaları yapılmalıdır.

Keywords

Uzaklaştırma Çabaları, İstilaci Türler, Pterois sp., Türkiye, Akdeniz

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