Aren lionfish poisonous to eat?
No, Lionfish are venomous, not poisonous, meaning that they have to inject you with venom for it to have an effect. Just like snake or scorpion venom it has to enter your blood stream before it has an effect. Poison on the other hand is something that needs to be ingested or inhaled. Pufferfish (‘Fugu’, treasured in Japan as a dangerous delicacy) are poisonous, they have a substance in their liver and other organs that kills you when eaten. The venom of a lionfish, if eaten, is simply destroyed by the digestive acids. Besides, Lionfish venom is also destroyed by the heat of cooking the fish.
