Fishing is the profession for well over a thousand people in Cyprus, but that livelihood is coming under an increasing threat from toadfish. 

The Lagocephalus sceleratus — better known as the silver-cheeked toadfish — is the bane of the modern-day fisherman in the waters that surround Cyprus.

Particularly abundant in the eastern region of the Mediterranean Sea due to its introduction via the Suez Canal, the toadfish is being blamed for dwindling catches and torn nets, as fishermen struggle to bring food to the plates of hundreds of thousands of people.