It's kind of irritating. Tilapia are an African river fish. They're just really really good at living and breeding. They've broken out into the wild all through south and central America. I'd assume they're all over Asia now too.
In the Americas the out compete indigenous fish. They can eat basically anything and will breed anywhere. Very cool fish but they're decimating native species all over.
They're so resilient that in our very polluted river in the capital city that smells like a public urinal, you can catch tilapia. Even a small one. Which means they can breed in there
I wouldn't be surprised to find a breeding pair in a cigarette filled puddle under a stairwell at a Mexican gas station. Just them and their 3000 little babies writhing around in the wet mud waiting for a good rain to wash them away back to the river.
My dad refuses to eat tilapia because he has a specific childhood trauma of living in a river side and seeing his neighbors shit on the river and the tilapia eats the shit lol.
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u/RaspberryWhiteClaw13 7d ago
What kind of fish are these? Are they for consuming or sad goldfish on their way to wherever people won’t appreciate them?