b'The Caribbean Lionfi sh Alliance Foundation CLA was founded by a group of individual hunters in Aruba that joined together their love for the ocean, love of scuba diving and the thrills that come from hunting the invasive lionfi sh. A foundation to bring people, businesses, and other foundations together to rid the invasive lionfi sh from Arubas beautiful reef for years to come.Volunteer hunters come from as far away as Holland and as close as the nearest neighborhoods in Aruba; all to help in the removal of lionfi sh from the coastal waters with the only limitations being the maximum recreational depths of scuba diving.Lionfi sh, however, are also living at much greater depths, beyond those limits. Together with Byron Boekhoudt (Aruba Reef Care Foundation) and Patrick van Brakel (LionFish Snack Aruba) CLA is working on a lionfi sh deep-water trap project. With the support of UNESCO more traps are being built and more research can be done. The purse trap being used was originally designed by Dr. Steve Gittings. Pure Diving Aruba is helping with deploying the traps to improve deployment and recovery techniques. Working together is the way to go!'