I apologize for not being able to contribute more (poor PhD student), but good luck! Also hopefully you will get recognized by some more major funders.
A great contact also working on lionfish is a new post-doc at UDel in Prof. Danielle Dixson's lab, Zara Cowan. She just started working on lionfish in Belize and Florida, maybe you can collaborate. She is on Twitter 😉
Jul 25, 2017
Crowdfund My Postdoc! Seasonal Movements of Lionfish in Bermuda