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Peacock Grouper

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Peacock Grouper

Roi — the introduced grouper

Roi, the peacock grouper, is dazzling and unwelcome: brought here for food in the 1950s, it turned out to carry ciguatera toxin and to eat a great many native reef fish. A gorgeous animal that is a good lesson in why we no longer move species between oceans.