The National Lionfish Project is a Pilot Project within a larger Regional Project entitled Mitigating the Threat of Invasive Alien Species in the Insular Caribbean (MTIASIC) funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The Lionfish Pilot Project in Jamaica is led by the University of the West Indies‐ Discovery Bay Marine Lab (UWI‐DBML) and National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA).