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The bright yellow rabbitfish, for example, overgrazes seagrass beds, destroying plants that provide a key habitat for local species and sequester carbon.

In one project, a fishing guild experimented with sustainable management for rabbitfish, a local delicacy.

They can avoid overfishing key herbivores like the rabbitfish that nurture the reefs by clearing away excessive algae.

While not a fish-eating species like the lionfish, the rabbitfish does have some venomous spines and could affect native species by depriving resident herbivores of aquatic food sources.

Temperatures now let invasive species, such as algae-grazing rabbitfish, introduced through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, explode.