Impacts, awareness and management of lionfish envenomation in coasts of Turkey.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]