Tilapia Buttikoferi

we need more of these!

Is this the same kind of Tilapia people eat?

Nope not the same fish.

beautiful fish... i wonder if they taste the same?

All species of tilapia are illegal to posses in Texas.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/exotic/

bristlenosedude wrote:

All species of tilapia are illegal to posses in Texas.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/exotic/

Something I did not know. Why do they do that you think?

Usual reason is TP&W thinks they might survive our winters. We have power plant lakes that don't get nearly as cold as lakes without them. Non-natives will out compete native species when they do get a foothold, no natural predators, high reproductive rates, year round spawnig... Never let ANY torpical fish lose into the wild.

Well I guess they have a good point then. Good info thanks!

Good thing I dont live in Texas!

best example of this is snakeheads. I am sure you are all familiar with this issue

I would love to own some of these! just don't have the room......

if only the US public would be open to eating snakeheads and buffalo carp fish them out of the water to thin out the population. Asians eat them all the time. pretty sustainable obviously... and if they were overfished? gee, darn, shucks. LOL perhaps the US should export these fish BACK to the asian markets as a way to control the populations?

btw I'm not being zenophobic. I'm asian. My mom in her diva self tried to order snakefish at a chinese retaurant(as she would in China) but we all had to remind her that things aren't as available in the US as they are in China.

uh sorry. totally Hijacked. I'm posting a new thread....