Posted on 05/09/2009 12:01:06 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologists are preparing to eliminate a cluster of invasive fish known as tilapia that have been found in waters off Plaquemines Parish.
Tilapia is a popular imported and farmed fish served in restaurants across the U.S.
Native to Africa, the fish could devastate native species important to recreational and commercial fisheries, scientists fear.
The Wildlife and Fisheries Commission declared an emergency Thursday, which will allow agents to kill tilapia in an isolated part of Plaquemines Parish.
The process of poisoning the fish with heavy applications of a substance called rotenone will take about two weeks, said Gary Tilyou, administrator of the state inland fisheries program.
Another government cover up = We all know rotenone is what they use to capture THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
The true South American Invasive species.
Had an outbreak here in Florida in the 50’s don’t you know.
One got away:
Gulf Red Snapper. yum!
Oh, great. Well, that is off the menu.
Yikes. Thanks for the info.
>> That fish tastes awful! <<
Not always. The filets can be delicious if cooked the correct way. The best I’ve ever had were grilled.
(But we’ve also had tilapia that tasted bad. My culinary-expert wife says the problem is due to improper cleaning and/or less-than-optimal fileting.)
I agree, no farm raised. I will go even further, no fresh water fish for me, salt water only.
Actually, we buy cow from a farmer. Tastes much better.
We raise cattle but we don’t eat our own beef.
LOL - Why in heaven not?
Actually some decades later there was a colony of piranha getting established in the canals of Fort Lauderdale. They exterminated them with poison, copper sulfate, I think. But these fish are in a much larger area, not confined to canals. They probably will get established like the zebra mussels.
We raise bucking bulls for rodeos, too valuable on the hoof and too tough. LOL!
I’ve never eaten it, but when I was in the seafood biz, I was told that tilapia can vary widely, based upon the feed......there’s a large farmed tilapia industry.
Oh, that makes sense. I was wondering what sort of beef you were raising, that would be to expensive to eat. Like kobe, or something.
Bucking bulls certainly explain it.
There was an episode of Dirty Jobs that had Mike Rowe working at a fish hatchery. They raised both tilapia and striped bass, I believe it was. The bass were raised on regular food, while the tilapia were brought in to clean up the waste, both uneaten food and bass waste. The tilapia were chosen because they would both clean the tanks for them, and could be sold for food when they were large enough.
We’ve had some very clean tilapia, usually the best tasting was from Brazil. We absolutely refuse all the fish from China, especially the farm raised. It’s ridiculous how much fish in out local stores is Chinese. There’s even a company based in Gloucester; turns out they’re just packaging Chinese fish.
See, that is why I got to a local farm, and buy a cow on the hoof.
Sadly, I am no where near the shore.
It’s usually very low concentrations of the poison, and has been used successfully many times before.
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