Invasive Species Month: Eat Roi? Great Target Practice and Chum
f you are a fisherman in Hawai‘i, you have most likely heard about the invasive species Roi and the stigma that they carry high amounts of ciguatoxin, the chemical that causes ciguatera food poisoning. Roi, also known as Peacock Grouper, were introduced to Hawai‘i from Mo‘orea, French Polynesia, in 1956 with the intention of adding variety to our fish stocks for consumption. Unfortunately, the introduction of this species
